State of West Virginia v. Larry E. Scott

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• holding that the agency “must address a petitioner’s primary evidence, particularly when that evidence is credible and points toward a conclusion contrary to that reached by the [agency]”
• relying on In re S-Y-G-, 24 I. & N. Dec. 247, 253 (B.I.A. 2007
• “When reviewing whether . . . evidence established changed country conditions, the BIA must ‘compare the evidence of country conditions submitted with the motion to those that existed at the time of the merits hearing below.’”
• “The BIA has broad discretion in how it conducts this 16 review, but it must explicitly consider any country conditions evidence submitted 17 by an applicant that materially bears on his claim.” (internal quotation marks 3 1 omitted)
• country conditions evidence must “materially bear on [petitioner’s] claim” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).