in the Matter of the Marriage of Neda Y. Crawford and Melvin R. Crawford

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that materiality on a motion to reopen “means the evidence must be likely to change the result of the alien’s underlying claim for relief”
• observing that if actions do not qualify as persecution, they necessarily do not constitute torture
• stating that the likelihood “need not be ‘more likely than not’” and that “a ‘reasonable possibility’ suffices,” but declining to select a specific percentage requirement (quoting Cardoza- Fonseca, 480 U.S. at 440)
• explaining decision to refrain from exercising BIA’s authority is committed to agency discretion by law
• explaining decision to refrain from exercising BIA’s authority is committed to agency discretion by law
• analyzing incidents “specific to” the alien

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).