Jiang Guan v. William Barr

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where a petitioner cannot articulate how alleged interpretation issues “affected his testimony” or the fairness of his hearing, no due process violation exists
• holding that the “serious reasons” standard is essentially a probable cause standard and a nonpolitical crime is one “that was not committed out of genuine political motives”
• finding 2 22-1656 that petitioner’s admissions, along with an arrest warrant, created probable cause sufficient to show bar was met
• remanding to agency for consideration of petitioner’s CAT claim in light of country reports indicating Christians in China are often subject to torture
• relying on petitioner’s testimony to hold that there was probable cause
• remanding to consider evidence of torture of Chinese Christians

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Ninth Circuit· 2022-08-31· cited 52×
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  Ninth Circuit· 2021-09-09· cited 16×
• W-E-R-B
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2020-07-01· cited 5×
• Zuowei Chen v. Merrick Garland
  Fourth Circuit· 2023-07-06· cited 3×
• United States v. Umar Chaudhry
  Fourth Circuit· 2025-12-16