Usina Costa Pinto, S. A. v. Sanco Sav Co.

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that “recklessly exposing another person to a substantial risk of imminent death is morally turpitudinous” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating recklessness amounts to culpable mental state “where it entails a conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustifiable risk posed by one’s conduct”
• “[I]n determining 12 particularity and social distinction what matters is whether 13 society as a whole views a group as socially distinct, not 14 the persecutor's perception.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).