Laeila Nelson, Stephanie Nelson, Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• concluding that the petitioner’s complaints of forgetting things and having bad memory were not sufficient to rise to the level of mental incompetency
• finding that health-related complaints such as headache and poor memory do not rise to the level of mental incompetency
• finding that substantial evidence supported an IJ’s ruling that three incidents of detainment lasting less than 72 hours each, all accompanied by some physical abuse, did not rise to the level of persecution
• affirming IJ finding of no persecution even where petitioner placed in solitary confinement and physically abused
• finding no past persecution where there were three episodes of solitary confinement of 72 hours or less, each accompanied by physical abuse
• finding no persecution where petitioner was placed in solitary confinement three times, each time lasting less than 72 hours and involving physical abuse, and petitioner was periodically surveyed, threatened, and stopped and searched

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).