Perdomo v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the agency should be given an opportunity in the first instance to make legal determinations entrusted to it by Congress,” including “whether women in Guatemala constitute a particular social group” for asylum purposes
• holding that “the proposed social group, ‘returning Mexicans from the United States,’ . . . [is] too 3 23-501 broad to qualify as [a] cognizable social group[] because [it] share[s] neither a voluntary relationship nor an innate characteristic”
• finding that the BIA “erred in determining that women in Guatemala cannot be a cognizable social group”
• finding that the BIA “erred in determining that women in Guatemala cannot be a cognizable social group”
• recognizing “certain social groups as too broad” where they lack a “unifying relationship or characteristic to narrow [an otherwise] diverse and disconnected group” (emphasis omitted
• finding that the BIA “erred in determining that women in Guatemala cannot be a cognizable social group”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).