Ruiz-Martinez v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Court may consider a claim that was not challenged on appeal to the BIA if the BIA explicitly addresses it in its decision
• explaining that opposition to gangs might amount to political activity if the applicant sought to vindicate the rights of others, organize other victims, or publicize a widespread gang problem extending beyond her own case
• deeming exhausted a claim that the BIA addressed despite a failure to raise it on appeal to the BIA
• deeming claim not raised to the BIA exhausted because BIA addressed it
• “§ 1252(b)(1) is indeed jurisdictional in nature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).