removal-proceedings

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25-429 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau Second Circuit 2025-10-08 Granted immigration-law inadmissibility-grounds lawful-permanent-resident parole removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether, to remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government mu…
25-363 Victor Manuel Castro-Aleman, aka Alfredo Quinones Olmo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Amici (2) discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-procedure removal-proceedings Whether an immigration judge's failure to inform an alien of the right to seek discretionary relief from removal violates due process and thus can con…
24-6595 Martin Guadalupe Cardiel-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-appeal collateral-attack due-process immigration-law judicial-review removal-proceedings Whether a defendant satisfies 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d)(1)-(2) when their removal order appeal waiver was not considered and intelligent
23-1270 Pierre Yassue Nashun Riley v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2024-06-04 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) board-of-immigration-appeals convention-against-torture immigration-law jurisdictional-deadline petition-for-review removal-proceedings Whether the 30-day deadline for filing a petition for review of a BIA decision in immigration proceedings is jurisdictional or a claims-processing rul…
23-929 Hugo Abisai Monsalvo Velazquez v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure deadline-calculation immigration-law post-decision-motion removal-proceedings voluntary-departure When a noncitizen's voluntary-departure period ends on a weekend or public holiday, is a motion to reopen filed the next business day sufficient to av…
23-115 Fathi Elltaif Saad Elldakli, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-action citizenship-and-immigration-services final-agency-action immigration-law judicial-review removal-proceedings status-adjustment Whether a status-adjustment decision by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services constitutes final agency action within the meaning of t…
22-7677 Francis Okiemute Akpore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-tort-claims-act immigration immigration-law jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice removal removal-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction Does 8 U.S.C. 1252(g) strip the district court of subject matter jurisdiction to hear a noncitizen's FTCA claim of wrongful removal?
22-7616 Milton Mendoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-proceedings separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation time-and-place 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)(Q), is ultr…
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…
22-7372 Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey, III v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-remedy removal-proceedings state-court-proceedings When Article I, Section 9 of the North Carolina Constitution states that 'every person restrained of his liberty is entitled to a remedy to inquire in…
22-7095 Efrain Avila-Flores v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP 8-usc-1326d administrative-procedure circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness immigration-law removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a failure to advise an unrepresented alien in removal proceedings about relief for which he is apparently eligible, is a defect that can rende…
22-884 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Varinder Singh Ninth Circuit 2023-03-14 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) administrative-law due-process immigration-law in-absentia-order notice-requirement notice-requirements removal-proceeding removal-proceedings rescission statutory-interpretation Whether the failure to receive, in a single document, all of the information specified in paragraph (1) of 8 U.S.C. 1229(a) precludes an additional do…
22-6479 Felix Agustin Dominguez-Bido, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Felix Dominguez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the Government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a 'notice to appear' that does not specify the date, time, and pl…
22-6347 Manuel Alejandro Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 bastide-hernandez-v-united-states due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law nix-chaves-v-barr notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a 'Notice to Appear' that fails to include the date and time of th…
22-6281 Juan Carlos Bastide-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 circuit-court-rulings circuit-split immigration-law notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a 'Notice to Appear' that fails to include the date and time of th…
22-5553 Rafael Villagomez-Troche v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 administrative-law court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction Whether service of a 'notice to appear' that complies with 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1) is required to vest jurisdiction in an immigration court over removal…
21-1436 Leon Santos-Zacaria, aka Leon Santos-Sacarias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Judgment Issued Amici (3) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-split exhaustion-of-remedies immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1252(d)(1)'s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that may be waived or forfeited
21-1219 Estela Mabel Argueta Romero v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied administrative-law immigration immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction notice-to-appear order-of-removal removal removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a noncitizen who leaves the United States after receiving notice to appear at a removal hearing, but before receiving an order of removal, is …
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.…
21-6814 Eleazar Flores-Mora v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-jurisdiction niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear (NTA) that di…
21-6445 Ruben Vazquez-Ovalle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Vazquez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
20-7969 Refugio Agustin-Pineda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a 'notice to appear' that fails to specify the hearing's time and…
20-7501 Alfredo Arroyo-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Arroyo-Hernandez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
20-1010 Ded Rranxburgaj v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-27 Dismissed Amici (3) administrative-law agency-discretion immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Do legal determinations antecedent to agencies' discretionary decisions to commence proceedings, adjudicate cases, or execute removal orders 'arise fr…
20-6962 Misael Herrera-Fuentes v. United States First Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did not …
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 …
20-6752 Juan Tinoco-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-advisement non-citizen non-citizen-rights padilla-v-kentucky post-conviction-relief removal-proceedings Does an immigration judge's failure to advise an immigrant in removal proceedings of their apparent eligibility to seek post-conviction relief under P…
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
20-6195 Erlin Josue Torres Zuniga v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-adjudication administrative-agency-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement notice-to-appear removal-proceedings Whether and under what circumstances the government may invoke collateral-estoppel against-a-criminal-defendant based-on-a-prior-administrative-agency…
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?
20-5925 Roberto Mendoza-Sanchez v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings service-of-process statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did not …
20-5881 Jose Vincente Lira-Ramirez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect noncitizen-rights notice removal removal-proceedings unlawful-reentry Does the Due Process Clause permit a noncitizen to be convicted under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 for unlawful reentry into the United States if the noncitizen wa…
20-5268 Luis Fernando Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Ramirez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
19-8583 Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether an offense that can be committed by omission rather than affirmative act necessarily entails the 'use' of force within the meaning of 18 U.S.C…
19-8510 Juan Carlos Garcia Torres v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction noncitizen notice-to-appear removal-proceedings Whether an immigration court has jurisdiction to commence removal proceedings against a noncitizen if the 'notice to appear' at the removal hearing fa…
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?
19-1155 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Ming Dai Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Judgment Issued Amici (1) asylum-application board-of-immigration-appeals court-of-appeals credibility-determination immigration-judge immigration-law ins-v-ventura judicial-review remand-rule removal-proceedings ventura Whether a court of appeals may conclusively presume that an asylum applicant's testimony is credible and true
19-7996 Milton Mayorga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-authority immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Mayorga because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
19-7753 Juan Ramon Pineda-Fernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove Mr. Pineda because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time
19-7410 Victor Manuel Mora-Galindo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear procedural-due-process removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove the petitioner because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time
19-7394 Jeremias Guillen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court jurisdiction notice notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings Where a Notice to Appear served on a noncitizen to initiate removal proceedings fails to state the date and time to appear, the noncitizen is never pr…
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?
19-6402 Omar Villarreal Silva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prejudice collateral-attack criminal-procedure customs-and-border-protection deportation due-process immigration immigration-law prejudice removal-proceedings Must a defendant show actual prejudice to collaterally attack a removal order?
19-6334 Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres…
19-438 Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Eighth Circuit 2019-10-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5) ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether …
19-294 Usama Jamil Hamama, et al. v. Rebecca Adducci, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Relisted (2) country-conditions deportation detention due-process ethnic-minorities immigration-court immigration-law removal-orders removal-proceedings suspension-clause torture torture-convention torture-protection Whether section 1252(g) is unconstitutional under the Suspension Clause as applied to Petitioners
18A1337 Usama Jamil Hamama, et al. v. Rebecca Adducci, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete convention-against-torture due-process habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-jurisdiction removal-proceedings Whether 8 U.S.C. §1252(g) and §1252(f)(1) unconstitutionally divest federal courts of jurisdiction to provide class-wide injunctive relief for immigra…
18-9618 Rafael Mata-Jimenez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach deportation immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status record-of-conviction relief-from-removal removal-proceedings Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether …
18-7550 Marbin Rene Reyes-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,immigration,r error-correction fundamental-fairness immigration-law immigration-status judicial-review legal-error procedural-due-process removal-proceedings unlawful-status Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the entry of a prior administrative-removal order against the petitioner was not fundamentally unfair,…
18-7450 Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 Whether federal jurisdiction remains during the pendency of a removal
18-5190 Marco Antonio Garcia-Echaverria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights deportation discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law removal-proceedings right-to-counsel Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—that a non-citizen has no constitutional right to be informed of the …
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…