The appeal: Adverse credibility ignoring independent documents.
Mental model: Demand the missing middle.
You’ll learn:
✓ Quote a decision rung by rung and let the ladder speak.
✓ Name each defect precisely: skipped, unreasoned, wrong-standard, contradictory.
✓ Find the floor — the claim that survives whatever the factfinder thought of the witness.
You’ll benefit most if your appeal involves:
• A decision that states conclusions without connecting them to the record.
• An adverse credibility finding treated as dissolving every claim, including CAT.
• Alternative holdings announced in a sentence apiece.
• Appellate work on a record you did not try, and limited time to master it.
What’s inside:
✓ Teaching Case (the full reconstruction)
✓ Annotated Filed Briefs
✓ Editorial Decisions
✓ Lessons from the case
✓ One-page Cheat Sheet
✓ Teaching Deck
The appeal: Adverse credibility ignoring independent documents.
Mental model: Demand the missing middle.
You’ll learn:
✓ Quote a decision rung by rung and let the ladder speak.
✓ Name each defect precisely: skipped, unreasoned, wrong-standard, contradictory.
✓ Find the floor — the claim that survives whatever the factfinder thought of the witness.
You’ll benefit most if your appeal involves:
• A decision that states conclusions without connecting them to the record.
• An adverse credibility finding treated as dissolving every claim, including CAT.
• Alternative holdings announced in a sentence apiece.
• Appellate work on a record you did not try, and limited time to master it.
What’s inside:
✓ Teaching Case (the full reconstruction)
✓ Annotated Filed Briefs
✓ Editorial Decisions
✓ Lessons from the case
✓ One-page Cheat Sheet
✓ Teaching Deck
