Jin Jin Long v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “one central reason” nexus standard of the REAL ID Act applies to withholding of removal
• reasoning that prosecution is not persecution absent evidence that prosecution is a pretext to target the applicant on account of a protected ground
• “[T]he 2 enforcement of generally applicable law cannot be said to be on account of the 3 offender’s political opinion, even if the offender objects to the law.”
• “In what circumstances—if any— may the enforcement of a law of general applicability (here, the apparent prohibition of assistance to North Korean refugees) constitute persecution on account of political opinion?”
• “As a rule, the enforcement of generally applicable law cannot be said to be on account of the offender’s political opinion, even if the offender objects to the law.”
• “As a rule, the enforcement of generally applicable law cannot be said to be on account of the offender's political opinion, even if the offender objects to the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).