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Domino: Teaching Case| CAT granted, Asylum denied on same record
The appeal: CAT granted, asylum denied on one record.
Mental model: Accepted findings have consequences.
You’ll learn:
✓ Follow one accepted finding to everything downstream.
✓ Turn a persecutor’s own documents into the nexus argument.
✓ Brief the contradiction no standard of review protects.
You’ll benefit most if your appeal involves
• A decision that grants one form of relief and denies others on the same evidence.
• An accepted document, finding, or concession the decision never follows downstream.
• A persecutor’s own records supplying motive or nexus.
• A written decision that contradicts what the judge said from the bench.
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: CAT granted, asylum denied on one record.
Mental model: Accepted findings have consequences.
You’ll learn:
✓ Follow one accepted finding to everything downstream.
✓ Turn a persecutor’s own documents into the nexus argument.
✓ Brief the contradiction no standard of review protects.
You’ll benefit most if your appeal involves
• A decision that grants one form of relief and denies others on the same evidence.
• An accepted document, finding, or concession the decision never follows downstream.
• A persecutor’s own records supplying motive or nexus.
• A written decision that contradicts what the judge said from the bench.
What’s inside:
✓ Teaching Case (the full reconstruction)
✓ Annotated Filed Briefs
✓ Editorial Decisions
✓ Lessons from the case
✓ One-page Cheat Sheet
✓ Teaching Deck