Rui Ying Lin v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• instructing that fraudulent document cannot form 9 basis of adverse credibility determination if such document 10 was used to escape “immediate danger or imminent 11 persecution”
• finding that the submission of a fraudulent document in support of an asylum claim can render the applicant’s claims subject to an adverse credibility finding where those documents go to the heart of an asylum claim
• “[I]f illegal manner of flight and entry were enough independently to support a denial of asylum, ... virtually no persecuted refugee would obtain asylum.”
• “A false sterilization certificate submitted to family planning officials to evade persecution does not reasonably discredit the authenticity of other documents submitted in an entirely different context.”
• discussing the maxim “falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).