Mahamed Ayenul Islam v. Alberto R. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “IJ . . . has an obligation 10 to establish and develop the record”
• noting that the case marked “the seventh time that [the court] ha[d] criticized” a particular IJ’s conduct during hearings
• providing that an IJ has an “obligation to establish and develop the record”
• explaining that an IJ “has an obligation to establish and develop the record” but also “has a responsibility to function as a neutral, impartial arbiter and must be careful to refrain from assuming the role of advocate for either party”
• remanding where IJ 4 “repeatedly addressed [the petitioner] in an argumentative, sarcastic, impolite, 5 and overly hostile manner that went beyond fact-finding and questioning”
• explaining 11 that Court remands “when an IJ’s conduct results in the 12 appearance of bias or hostility such that [the Court] cannot 13 conduct a meaningful review of the decision below”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).