Tofelogo v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “by itself, pervasive violence in an applicant’s country generally is insufficient to demonstrate the applicant is more likely than not to be tortured upon returning there”
• holding petitioner failed to demonstrate that any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude, contrary to the IJ’s finding, that a past assault resulted from a personal disagreement unrelated to the petitioner’s political opinion
• stating that because the burden of proof for withholding of removal is higher than for asylum, the “failure to meet the standard of proof for [an] asylum application forecloses [a] withholding-of-removal claim premised on the same facts”
• the noncitizen bears the burden to show he has met the requirements for CAT relief
• “[B]y itself, pervasive violence in an applicant’s country generally is insufficient to demonstrate the applicant is more likely than not to be tortured upon returning there.”
• “[B]y itself, pervasive violence in an applicant’s country generally is insufficient to demonstrate the applicant is more likely than not to be tortured upon returning there.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).