Torres v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that petitioner’s failure to mention in asylum application the severe mistreatment which allegedly prompted him to flee his country was a permissible basis for IJ to find his testimony not credible
• recognizing that petitioner’s failure to mention in asylum application the severe mistreatment which allegedly prompted him to flee his country was a permissible basis for IJ to find his testimony not credible
• vacating BIA’s order denying relief because applicant’s “testimony is rife with examples that provide his family’s history”—namely, the targeting of his older brothers—as the cause of his persecution
• vacating BIA’s order denying relief because applicant’s “testimony is rife with examples that provide his family’s history” — namely, the targeting of his older brothers — as the cause of his persecution
• “Our prior opinions make it clear that we consider family to be a cognizable social group . . . .”
• “Our prior opinions make it clear that we consider family to be a cognizable social group within the meaning of the immigration law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).