Suganthan Pathmakanthan v. Eric Holder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• describing the high standard set for anecdotal evidence to support a pattern-or-practice claim
• con- cluding that one death threat did not create a well-founded fear of future persecution, in part because “the threat was an isolated incident, not part of a series of ongoing threats”
• con- cluding that one death threat did not create a well-founded fear of future persecution, in part because “the threat was an isolated incident, not part of a series of ongoing threats”
• con- cluding that one death threat did not create a well-founded fear of future persecution, in part because “the threat was an isolated incident, not part of a series of ongoing threats”
• con- cluding that one death threat did not create a well-founded fear of future persecution, in part because “the threat was an isolated incident, not part of a series of ongoing threats”
• “[F]or an unfulfilled threat to rise to the level of persecution, it must be something extraordinarily ominous. It cannot simply be a threat of death that, in context, is just a matter of words.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).