Yan Yan Lin v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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

• describing as tangential those acts that “did not contribute to, or facilitate, the victims’ forced abortions in any direct or active way because they did not cause the abortions, nor did they make it more likely that they would occur.” (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• “It is settled law that forced abortion is persecution on account 8 of political opinion.”
• “It is settled law that forced abortion is persecution on account of political opinion.”
• “[The persecutor bar] prevents those who have persecuted others (or assisted in the persecution of others) from gaining refugee status and seeking asylum in the United States. . . . [and] seeking withholding of removal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).