Rickaby v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing petitioner’s evidence that gangs use “sources within the police, government and community” to collect information about those who make police reports
• vacating a removal order when “both the IJ and BIA failed to provide a meaningful analysis of whether Petitioner established a well-founded fear of future persecution”
• “As a general matter, when the B[IA] errs, ‘the proper course … is to remand to the agency for additional investigation or explanation.”
• first alteration in 8 USCA4 Appeal: 24-1936 Doc: 48 Filed: 01/16/2026 Pg: 9 of 11 original
• “[W]e conclude that when disregarding credible, significant, and unrebutted evidence, agency adjudicators must offer specific, cogent reasons for doing so.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).