Nikijuluw v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “an IJ must offer a specific and cogent rationale for disbelieving the alien”
• noting that “issues adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation, are deemed waived”
• stating it is “well established that issues adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation, are deemed waived”
• explaining failure to brief an issue in more than perfunctory manner results in waiver
• denying petition of incredible fifty-two-year-old whose asylum claim was unrelated to childhood
• “The Immigration and Nationality Act provides no precise definition of ‘persecution[,]’ ” but “[t]he case law ... is more informative”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).