Pedro Javier Rodriguez Morales v. U.S. Atty. Gen.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence that FARC persecuted petitioner for refusing to perform dental services for their members and help in spreading their political views did not compel finding that persecution was on account of political opinion
• refusing to overturn the BIA’s determination petitioner was threatened for refusal to provide dental services despite the fact the evidence could support a finding of political persecution
• stating where the evidence equally supports an inference of persecution based on a protected ground, and an inference of persecution based on an unprotected ground, the record does not “compel” this Court to hold otherwise
• affirming the BIA, despite evidence that “could support an inference of persecution because of his political beliefs,” where “the evidence equally supports an inference that he was threatened simply because of his refusal to provide dental services”
• affirming the denial of asylum because, while the alien’s testimony could have supported an inference that he was persecuted because of his political beliefs, the evidence equally supported an inference that he was threatened simply because of his refusal to assist the persecutors
• discussing withholding of removal’s clear probability of persecution standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).