Salvador Del Valle v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting BIA's conclusion that security forces would not re-arrest petitioner because it was based on conjecture
• documentary evidence may support claim by proving threat of persecution is “a serious one”
• “evidence [] suggest[ing] that [petitioner’s] family has been particularly affected by the conditions in their country [] helps support [petitioner’s] claim for asylum” (internal citations omitted)
• “[T]he BIA’s conclusion that the security forces released Del Valle because they were satisfied that he was not part of the opposition is not based on substantial evidence, but upon conjecture.”
• conclusions must be based on substantial evidence, not conjecture
• conclusions must be based on substantial evidence, not conjecture

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).