Felix Flores Rios v. Loretta E. Lynch

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• holding that a claim that is not addressed with any specificity in a brief is deemed abandoned
• holding that petitioner “abandoned his claims for asylum and CAT protection by not addressing them with any specificity in his briefs”
• holding that the BIA’s failure to 5 address whether petitioner’s claimed membership in a social group comprising his family members is cognizable was “a failure that constitutes error and requires remand”
• holding that the petitioner had sufficiently raised the issue of his family as a particular social group to the BIA and that \[t]he BIA did not address this social group claim—a failure that constitutes error and requires remand\
• explaining that “family membership may 30 RODRIGUEZ-ZUNIGA V. GARLAND constitute membership in a ‘particular social group’” (emphasis added)
• stating that the petitioner “abandoned his claims for asylum and CAT protection by not addressing them with any specificity in his briefs”

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