INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca

Distinguished the asylum 'well-founded fear' standard from the more demanding withholding-of-removal standard.

Evidence ID
evidence:v724:ffd88d1aae3f4bf0bd95
Issue
Asylum Access & Due Process
Verification
VERIFIED_BOUNDED_EVIDENCE_PROPOSITION
Support direction
SUPPORTS
Publisher
Cornell Legal Information Institute; opinion authored by the U.S. Supreme Court
Jurisdiction
United States

Exact source

INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca

Scope and limitations

Eligibility still requires fact-specific proof and does not guarantee discretionary relief.

Verification is bounded to the recorded proposition. It does not independently verify the complete issue or establish every relationship that might be plausible.

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Record type
Analytical reader surface
Publication/readiness state
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Model/method version
Preserved governed method; rendered through the v7.44 reader-first template
As-of/currentness date
Page projection 2026-08-30; source dates remain record-specific
Source uses
Record-specific source uses remain in the underlying governed artifact
Exact locators
Displayed only when supplied by the governed record; missing locators remain missing
Limitations
Route presence and computational output are not evidence; missingness remains explicit.
Counterevidence state
Not inferred; unknown or not evaluated remains explicit
Review/governance history
Deterministic release lineage; no human truth adjudication added
Correction path
Structured correction packet
Release provenance
Release 7.44 metadata