Sheila I. Velez Martinez , Linda Hamilton , Nahla Kamaluddin , and University of Pittsburgh School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, on brief for Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, National Council of Jewish Women, and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, amici curiae.
Christina P. Greer , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, and Terri J. Scadron , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.
Before Howard, Chief Judge, Kayatta and Barron, Circuit Judges.
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
In this case we confront the perplexing question of whether the requirements for establishing membership in a particular social group in support of a request for asylum or withholding of removal categorically reject any group defined in material part as women "unable to leave" a domestic relationship. For the following reasons...
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