Yacouba Berte v. John Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the harm suffered must be particularized to the individual.... Harm arising from general conditions such as anarchy, civil war, or mob violence will not ordinarily support a claim of persecution.”
• noting that “the harm suffered must be particularized to the individual. . . . Harm arising from general conditions such as anarchy, civil war, or mob violence will not ordinarily support a claim of persecution.”
• noting BIA will remand only if the new evidence “would likely change the result in the case”
• acknowledging identical limitation on judicial review in 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(A) (2000)
• “Even if the evidence was previously unavailable, the BIA will remand only if the evidence is of such a nature that the Board is satisfied that ... the new evidence would likely change the result in the case.”
• BIA’s function is to review record, not create it; BIA will remand only if previously unavailable evidence satisfies BIA that new evidence would likely change case result if proceedings before IJ were reopened

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).