Rene Lopez Rodriguez v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that an Immigration Judge’s factual findings are clearly erroneous only if they are illogical or implausible
• observing that factual findings made without following regulations constitute error of law
• explaining that “where credibility determinations are at issue . . . ‘even greater deference’ must be afforded to the [Immigration Judge’s] factual findings” (quoting Anderson v. City of Bessemer City, 470 U.S. 564, 575 (1985)
• acknowledging the Department of Justice’s position that “[a] factfinding may not be overturned simply because the Board would have weighed the evidence differently or decided the facts differently had it been the factfinder”
• “[A] factfinder may . . . credit one witness’s testimony over another’s if both have related coherent and facially plausible stories that are not contradicted by extrinsic evidence.”
• “If the BIA wanted specific factual findings on these issues, then the governing regulations required it to remand the case to the IJ instead of making 2 its own factual determinations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).