Thompson Olu Adebisi v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that voodoo threats by elders of tribe did not constitute religious persecution but rather represented a personal dispute
• noting that an alien who cannot establish eligibility for the discretionary grant of asylum is necessarily precluded from establishing the more stringent requirement of withholding of deportation
• noting the unable-or-unwilling-to-control test, but also finding that the feared harm “does not arise from activities instigated or sanctioned by” the government (emphasis added)
• noting the unable-or- unwilling-to-control test, but also finding that the feared harm “does not arise from activities instigated or sanctioned by” the government (emphasis added)
• affirming the denial of asylum because “[t]he evidence in the record supports the [BIA’s] finding that the persecution feared by [petitioner] does not arise from activities instigated or sanctioned by the . . . government, authorities, military, or supporters of the regime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).