Nolan v. DynCorp International LLC

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• holding that neither Salvadoran youths who have resisted gang-recruitment efforts nor their families constitute social groups for asylum purposes because they lack both the particularity and social visibility characteristics
• holding that Salvadoran youths who have been subjected to recruitment efforts by the MS-13 gang and who have resisted membership in the gang do not constitute a particular social group
• holding that neither Salvadoran youth resisting gang recruitment nor their family members constituted particular social group because they do not share recognizable and discrete attributes
• holding that a social group could not “be defined exclusively by the fact that its members have been subjected to harm in the past”
• ruling that Salvadoran youth who refused gang recruitment do not constitute a particular social group
• concluding that young men who resisted gang 21 recruitment was amorphous and included “a potentially large 4 1 and diffuse segment of society”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).