Hallowell v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “special deference” is accorded only to “non-verbal, and therefore non-textual, factors” (citation omitted)
• explaining that while “country reports and news articles” indicate problems in the petitioner’s home country, “they in no way establish that [he] would ‘more likely than not’ be persecuted upon removal … on account of his [protected ground]”
• upholding denial of CAT relief where generalized violence did not show “any particularized risk of torture”
• upholding agency’s adverse credibility determination based in part on the petitioner’s implausible testimony
• upholding adverse credibility finding based on noncitizen’s “evasiveness and non- responsiveness”
• an “IJ’s implausibility finding will ultimately hinge on the application of a reasonable evaluation of the testimony and evidence based on common sense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).