Shunfu Li v. Mukasey

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• concluding that 8 unexhausted and waived grounds for adverse credibility 9 determination “could, by themselves, support an adverse 10 credibility determination”
• noting that “waiver is significant” where 16 unchallenged “findings could, by themselves, support an adverse credibility 17 determination”
• noting that “we afford IJs considerable 3 flexibility in determining the authenticity of . . . documents from the totality of the 4 evidence”
• observing that testimonial-vagueness finding, on its own, cannot support adverse-credibility determination “unless government counsel or the IJ first attempts to solicit more detail from the alien” (emphasis added)
• observing that testimonial-vagueness finding, on its own, cannot support adverse-credibility determination “unless government counsel or the IJ first attempts to solicit more detail from the alien” (emphasis added)
• describing that remand may be futile where the court can “confidently . . . predict that the agency would reach the same decision absent the errors that were made” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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