Kirupanathan Perinpanathan v. Immigration and Naturalization Service John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing an IJ’s decision is due deference from the court where it is supported by specific, cogent reasons for disbelief
• discussing the value of Department of State country condition reports in the assessment of claimed fears of persecution
• “Department of State country conditions reports are persuasive authority for determining whether an asylum- seeker has a well-founded fear of persecution”
• “This court defers to an immigration judge’s credibility finding where the finding is supported by a specific, cogent reason for disbelief.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• if alien shows past persecution, government has burden of showing conditions in the applicant’s country have changed such that applicant no longer has well-founded fear of future persecution
• “An applicant for protection under the [CAT] must establish that it is more likely than not that he or she would be tortured if returned to the proposed country of removal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).