Soriano v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that government informants do not qualify as a social group
• holding mere “opposition to organized crime” does not constitute a political opinion
• finding informing the police about gang activities insufficient to show actual or imputed political opinion
• distinguishing “personal animosity” from well-founded fear of persecution and concluding that “[p]etitioner’s fear of future persecution stems from the criminals’ motive to retaliate against him for informing on them”
• upholding the BIA’s no-nexus determination when the “persecution stem[med] from the criminals’ motive to retaliate against [petitioner] for informing on them,” because such motive amounted to “[p]ersonal animosity . . . not political opinion”
• stating standards for the denial of CAT relief

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Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Delgado-Ortiz v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-04-06· cited 803×
• Rocio Henriquez-Rivas v. Eric Holder, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-02-13· cited 591×
• Leiva-Perez v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-04-01· cited 291×
• Edgar Cordoba v. Eric H. Holder Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-08-13· cited 179×
• Velasco-Cervantes v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-01-27· cited 24×
• Olakunle Oshodi v. Eric H. Holder Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-01-26· cited 7×
• Veronica Velasco Cervantes v. Eric H. Holder Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-01-27
• Ortiz v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-04-06
• Xiao Lin v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-06-26
• Seesay v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-10-14

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Skidmore v. Swift & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1944-12-04· cited 4,567×
• Mario Ernesto Navas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-06-20· cited 674×
• Santos-Lemus v. Mukasey
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-09-08· cited 591×
• Arteaga v. Mukasey
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-12-27· cited 326×
• S-E-G
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2008-07-01· cited 271×
• Luis Alonzo Sanchez-Trujillo, and Luis Armando Escobar-Nieto v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-10-15· cited 268×
• German Ochoa Claudia Diaz v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-05-16· cited 247×
• Eunice Oritsegbeyiwa Azanor v. John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-04-01· cited 236×
• Pedro Garcia-Quintero v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-07-24· cited 201×
• Ramos-Lopez v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-04-16· cited 177×
• C-A
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2006-07-01· cited 170×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-04-30· cited 72×
• Oscar Ricardo Zayas-Marini v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-03-25· cited 46×

Other cases named Soriano v. Holder

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Soriano v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-06-26