Guzman v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a “one-time kidnapping and beating falls well short of establishing ‘past persecution’ ”
• noting that in part because the civil war had ended in 1996, the BIA “support-ably concluded” that a Guatemalan citizen failed to show asylum eligibility
• finding that a “one-time kidnaping and beating falls well short of establishing ‘past persecution’ ”
• finding that a “one-time kidnaping and beating [by possible guerrilla forces] falls well short of establishing ‘past persecution’ ”
• finding that the fact that other relatives of the petitioner have lived undisturbed in Guatemala for more than a decade supports the conclusion that Guzmán failed to establish eligibility for asylum
• “[C]onstruing a claim to exclude a preferred embodiment is rarely, if ever, correct and would require highly persuasive evidentiary support.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).