State of Tennessee v. James Lackey

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• upholding a similar “inference” where there was no indication that drug traffickers had any “continuing interest in harming [an alien or his] family once they gained possession of th[eir] land”
• affirming holding of no nexus between family and persecution where the evidence showed that “Los Cachiros sought to obtain the Ruiz family’s land, not that the narcotraffickers had a continuing interest in harming the Ruiz family once they gained possession of that land.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).