RUIZ, LINETTE v. CITY OF BUFFALO

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that CAT relief requires that torture “be inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity”
• explaining that, where the BIA affirms the immigration judge’s overall findings, “we review the IJ’s decision ‘as a guide to what lay behind the BIA’s conclusion’” (quoting Ornelas-Chavez v. Gonzales, 458 F.3d 1052, 1058 (9th Cir. 2006))
• reiterating that “the family remains the quintessential particular social group”
• remanding to the BIA to “consider all relevant evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).