· 7/26/2010
Rahimzadeh v. Holder
Citations
- 613 F.3d 916
- 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 15246
- 2010 WL 2890998
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “demonstrating that a country’s laws or customs effectively deprive the petitioner of any meaningful recourse to governmental protection”
- determining that authorities are willing and able to 2 control private persecutors when the “law and judiciary provide effective means of addressing instances of abuse”
- concluding the record did not compel the finding that the petitioner would be harmed by forces the government was unwilling or unable to control
- noting that evidence that “the law and judiciary” do not provide effective means of addressing human rights abuses can establish governmental inability or unwillingness to provide protection
- discussing various means by which a petitioner may fill the “gap in proof’ left by the absence of a report to the police
- discussing various means by which a petitioner may fill the “gap in proof’ left by the absence of a report to the police
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Judges: Tashima, Fisher, Berzon
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