Zuh v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “it seems untenable to require a sworn statement from a person ... potentially endangered by helping [the] applicant”
• holding, in the context of the BIA exercising its discretion in denying asylum to an alien qualifying as a refugee, that “an IJ need not analyze or even list every factor”
• immigration law violations should be considered in 48 “a totality of the circumstances inquiry” and should not be given “too much weight”
• immigration law violations should be considered in 48 “a totality of the circumstances inquiry” and should not be given “too much weight”
• “An IJ cannot have it both ways, finding an applicant and [her] documents incredible for one purpose and yet relying on them for another.”
• immigration law violations should be considered in “a totality of the circumstances inquiry” and should not be given “too much weight”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).