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· 7/21/2015

Fany Ramirez-Mejia v. Loretta Lynch

Citations

  • 794 F.3d 485
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 12564
  • 2015 WL 4460993

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that conduct driven by personal or criminal motives does not constitute persecution based on a protected ground
  • concluding that BIA reasonably denied CAT relief based, in part, on the finding that petitioner’s family members were not tortured, despite remaining in Honduras after petitioner’s brother was murdered
  • holding the reinstatement bar, “read plainly, broadly denies all forms of redress from removal, including asylum”
  • holding the reinstatement bar, “read plainly, broadly denies all forms of redress from removal, including asylum”
  • explaining that police “insisted that she file a report against” a gang member that threatened her
  • arguing that “[w]ithout her relationship to her brother, the gang would not have asked her about any hypothetical ‘information’”

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Judges: Wiener, Southwick, Graves

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