Noga v. County of Onondaga

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, in ascertaining motive, the agency may evaluate 11 “statements or actions by the perpetrators”
• noting that asylum may be granted if the applicant provides evidence that the persecutors acted out of some improper motive, even if there were also legitimate motives for their actions
• stressing that a person who is erroneously believed to hold a particular political opinion can satisfy the “refugee” definition, although it may be “impossible” to prove the exact reason for persecution
• in a mixed-motive case, “the applicant [must] produce[] evidence from which it is reasonable to believe that the harm was motivated by a protected ground”
• “Persecution for ‘imputed’ grounds (e.g., where one is erroneously thought to hold particular political opinions ...) can satisfy the ‘refugee’ definition.”
• “The task of the alien is to demonstrate the reasonableness of a motivation which is related to one of the enumerated grounds.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).