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Ramos-Lopez v. Holder

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled in part
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
563 F.3d 855
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
54 of 54
Citing cases (total)
54
Treatment dates
2013
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Ramos-Lopez v. Holder was overruled in part. In Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder, the Ninth Circuit sitting en banc held that Ramos-Lopez is no longer good law insofar as it required a proposed asylum social group to be visible on sight.
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54 later cases cite Ramos-Lopez v. Holder; 54 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The en banc court held that Ramos-Lopez is no longer good law to the extent it required asylum applicants to show that their proposed social group was visible on sight.

    Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder · Ninth Circuit (en banc) · filed

    To the extent that Santos-Lemus, Ramos-Lopez, and related cases mischaracterized the “social visibility” requirement by requiring “on-sight” visibility, they are no longer good law.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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