CAT — Government Acquiescence

Cases — CAT — Government Acquiescence

Maldonado v. Lynch
9th Cir.en banc

786 F.3d 1155 (9th Cir. 2015) (en banc) · 2015

CAT protection requires showing the government would acquiesce in torture; the 9th Circuit clarified the acquiescence standard, holding that a government's willful blindness to torture can constitute acquiescence.

En banc. Clarified government acquiescence standard for CAT claims.

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