Jamal Ali Farah v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that failure to qualify for asylum “necessarily results in a failure to demonstrate eligibility for withholding of [removal]”
• holding that applicants who fail to satisfy the lower standard of proof for asylum automatically fail to satisfy the higher standard for withholding of removal
• holding that an adverse credibility determination on key elements of an asylum application forecloses relief on claims for asylum and withholding of removal
• holding that eligibility for asylum and withholding of removal depends on the credible establishment of the key elements of the asylum application
• holding that an adverse credibility determination alone can be sufficient to deny CAT relief only if the petitioner presented no additional evidence beyond his incredible testimony
• holding that a petitioner who fails to satisfy the lower standard of proof for asylum necessarily fails to satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of removal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).