The Third Circuit has reinstated an Immigration Judge’s grant of protection under the Convention Against Torture to a Guatemalan woman fleeing gender violence. In so doing, the court noted that the Board of Immigration Appeals erroneously conducted a de novo review of the Judge’s factual findings, instead of reviewing them for clear error.

The full text of Arreaga Bravo v. Attorney General can be found here

https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/203300p.pdf

A clarified opinion can be found here:

https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/203300pa1.pdf

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