Yueqing Zhang v. Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney General

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• recognizing that where an asylum applicant opposes government extortion, he will often stand to gain financially from the challenge
• recognizing that corrupt officials may well be motivated “by a pecuniary desire to shield their activities from detection”
• concluding that an alien abandoned a claim “by failing to discuss [it] anywhere in his brief”
• holding that a party’s “single conclusory sentence” in his brief on appeal regarding a claim of error was tantamount to a waiver of that claim
• holding that the petitioner forfeited his claim “by failing to discuss [it] anywhere in his brief”
• holding that party’s “single 8 conclusory sentence” of argument on claim was tantamount to 9 a waiver of that claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).