Supreme Court Decides Garland v. Ming Dai
By EsqSocial Corporation 04/06/21
On June 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Garland v. Ming Dai, overruling the Ninth Circuit’s longstanding “deemed-true-or-credible” rule that required reviewing courts to treat noncitizens’ testimony as credible and true absent an explicit adverse credibility determination by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). Instead, reviewing courts must accept the BIA’s findings of fact as “conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”...
By: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP