Ismaiel v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the adverse credibility finding was “eminently reasonable” because the petitioner testified that he had been beaten and detained, but he omitted these facts from his asylum application
• holding court of appeals lacked jurisdiction over issues not presented to the BIA
• upholding the denial of CAT relief based on adverse credibility finding
• “An IJ’s finding that an applicant’s testimony is implausible may not be based on speculation, conjecture, or unsupported personal opinion.”
• “Cross-examination often seeks to undermine the witness’s credibility by probing into inconsistencies and improbabilities . . . .”
• “[T]he IJ and BIA could reasonably refuse to believe [the noncitizen’s] claims of past torture and, reviewing all the evidence, remain unpersuaded that [he] satisfied his burden of proving that he would probably be tortured if [removed].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).