Kouame Adonics Konan v. Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that our review of the BIA’s decision “is limited to the rationale that the agency provides”
• holding that violence during generalized unrest is insufficient to show past persecution
• holding “a reviewing court is powerless to decide in the first instance issues that an agency does not reach”
• observing that “general unrest and violence will not support an asylum claim standing alone”
• “[A] reviewing court is powerless to decide in the first instance issues that an agency does not reach.”
• “It is a bedrock principle of administrative law that judicial review of an agency’s decision is limited to the rationale that the agency provides.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).