William Alexander Alvarez-Flores v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the alien \bears the burden of proving eligibility for asylum and for withholding of deportation\
• requiring the language of the communication to “suppl[y] additional, affirmative evidence suggesting that the defendant intends or endorses the defamatory inference” (emphasis in original)
• applying rational relationship test to a veterans’ employment preference law because no suspect class or fundamental right was implicated
• affirming dismissal of plaintiffs’ equal protection claims because, among other things, “the classification at issue reflects . . . rational considerations”
• distinguishing between libel’s objective standard 12 and the subjective test of libel by implication
• Rule 11 sanctions reach pleadings that, while not devoid of all merit, were filed for some malign purpose

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