| 25A675 |
United States v. Leopoldo Rivera-Valdes |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
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deportation due-process immigration-law notice-requirements removal-order statutory-notice |
Whether due process requires the government to take additional reasonable steps to provide actual notice of a deportation hearing beyond mailing notic… |
| 23-6851 |
Praxedis Saul Portillo-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-remedies collateral-attack due-process exhaustion-of-remedies immigration immigration-law judicial-review removal-order |
Does the court of appeals' holding conflict with Mendoza-Lopez? |
| 23-6206 |
Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 custody habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review noncitizen-rights removal-order savings-clause statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Does the savings clause provided in Section 2255(e) allow the court to hear a prisoner's custody petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 following the d… |
| 22-7541 |
Luis Nunez-Romero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 administrative-law due-process immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Whether a putative notice to appear that does not contain the time and place of removal proceedings, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G), is ultr… |
| 22-7243 |
Mario Roberto Bonilla-Diaz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration-law in-absentia removal-order sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Mr. Bonilla-Diaz's in absentia removal order, which issued when he was ten years old and forms the basis for his illegal reentry conviction, i… |
| 22-6110 |
Luis David Huerta-Carranza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process immigration-court immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defective notice to appear that omits the statutorily required time-and-place information fails to confer jurisdiction on the immigration co… |
| 21-6815 |
Noe Flores-Perez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-remedies administrative-remedy exhaustion-doctrine immigration-law in-absentia in-absentia-proceeding judicial-review notice-requirements removal-order removal-proceedings |
Whether a motion to reopen is an administrative remedy that must be pursued before challenging the validity of an in absentia removal order under 8 U.… |
| 20-967 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Rodriguez-Garcia because he was served a Notice to Appear that did not comply with federal law … |
| 20-6857 |
Luis Pina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers |
Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue removal orders, violating separation of powers and due process |
| 20-6464 |
Benito Moreno-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Moreno because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time? |
| 20-6462 |
Anastacio Castruita-Escobedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove Mr. Castruita-Escobedo because he was not served a notice to appear with a hearing time |
| 20-6362 |
Victor Manuel Avalos-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 circuit-split illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether an immigration court lacks jurisdiction to issue an order of removal that can later be used as a basis for an illegal reentry criminal convict… |
| 20-6066 |
Rodolfo Segura-Virgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-felony civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration judicial-review pro-se-waiver removal-order |
Whether courts evaluating a prior removal order in the context of a criminal prosecution for illegal reentry are required to apply the law as it is no… |
| 20-5995 |
Edwin Virgilio Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Gomez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time? |
| 20-437 |
United States v. Refugio Palomar-Santiago |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-remedies criminal-law due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-review removal-order statutory-interpretation unlawful-reentry |
Whether a defendant automatically satisfies the prerequisites of 8 U.S.C. 1326(d) solely by showing that he was removed for a crime that would not be … |
| 19-8431 |
Ciro Cruz-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Cruz because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time? |
| 19-8169 |
Jorge Madero-Gil v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers |
Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process |
| 19-7821 |
Juan Alberto Cantu-Siguero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-court immigration-court-jurisdiction pereira-precedent pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers |
Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation of powers and due process |
| 19-897 |
Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Maria Angelica Guzman Chavez, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
8-usc-1226 8-usc-1231 administrative-law detention immigration-detention immigration-law immigration-procedure removal-order statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal withholding-removal |
Whether the detention of an alien who is subject to a reinstated removal order and who is pursuing withholding or deferral of removal is governed by 8… |
| 19-7052 |
Jose Alexander Callejas Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers |
Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process |
| 19-6588 |
Carlos Javier Pedroza-Rocha v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-remedies collateral-attack due-process hearing-time illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-court-authority immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Pedroza because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time? |
| 18-9092 |
Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv… |
| 18-257 |
Monty Bauch, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of O. B., a Minor, et al. v. Richland County Children Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
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child-removal civil-rights complaining-witness due-process due-process-rights ex-parte ex-parte-order magistrate-testimony qualified-immunity removal-order social-worker social-worker-immunity standing witness-immunity |
Whether a social worker is entitled to absolute immunity when she makes false statements and omits highly relevant information as a complaining witnes… |
| 18-5322 |
Santiago Hum Rodriguez-Aparicio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-fairness illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mendoza-lopez removal-order removal-proceeding uniformity |
Whether the failure to inform an alien of his eligibility for discretionary relief in a removal proceeding is a due process violation that can make th… |
| 18-5191 |
Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d) can consider the current understanding of the nat… |