Melencio Legui Lim v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that alien who had received numerous death threats but was never closely confronted had not suffered past persecution
• holding that unfulfilled threats do not constitute past persecution
• stating that threats alone “constitute past persecution in only a small category of cases . . . when the threats are so menacing as to cause significant actual suffering or harm.”
• collecting cases on well-founded fear on the basis of threats alone
• threats, including death threats, constitute past persecution only when they cause significant actual suffering or harm
• “For a fear to be well founded, it must be both subjectively genuine and objectively reasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).