The district court adopted the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations in full, granted the petition for writ of habeas corpus, and ordered respondents to immediately release petitioner Marvin A.M. from custody.
The court granted a pro se habeas petition and ordered the immediate release of a Venezuelan national detained by ICE since July 2026, holding that his prior parole and current employment authorization created a significant liberty interest requiring a pre-deprivation bond hearing under the Due Proc
A magistrate judge recommends denying a habeas petition by a Venezuelan national detained by ICE, holding that the immigration judge’s finding that he is a threat to public safety was not an abuse of discretion and that prolonged detention during removal proceedings does not violate the Fifth
A magistrate judge recommends denying a § 2241 habeas petition challenging ICE detention because the petitioner received a bond hearing before an immigration judge who denied bond, and the record shows lawful detention under § 1226(a) with a valid arrest warrant and custody determination.
The district court adopted the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations, granted the § 2241 habeas petition, and ordered the immediate release of petitioner Jesus Morales-Bautista from ICE custody, rejecting the government’s mandatory-detention argument under 8 U.S.C. § 1225.
The court adopted the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations in full, granted the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and ordered the immediate release of petitioner Roisbel E.G. with an injunction barring re-detention absent seven-days’ notice and a pre-deprivation hearing before a neutr
The court denied a Cuban national’s habeas petition challenging his ICE re-detention after humanitarian parole expired, holding that although he had a protected liberty interest, the Mathews v. Eldridge factors weighed in the government’s favor because he received a post-deprivation bond
The court granted the petition for writ of habeas corpus and ordered respondents to provide petitioner with a renewed bond hearing before a neutral immigration judge within 14 days, with at least 10 days’ notice, because the original hearing was constitutionally defective due to lack of notice
A magistrate judge recommended dismissal without prejudice under Younger v. Harris because the relief sought by state detainee Derek Howard Burr would interfere with his pending prosecution. The judge separately discussed the apparent lack of exhaustion.
The court adopted the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations, granted the habeas petition, and ordered the petitioner’s immediate release with prior conditions, return of documents, a three-day compliance notice, and an injunction barring re-detention without compliance with 8 C
A magistrate judge recommends denying an immigration detainee’s second § 2241 habeas petition without prejudice, finding that while the abuse-of-the-writ doctrine bars re-litigation of the initial due-process claim, the prolonged-detention claim survives but fails on the merits under Mathews v
A magistrate judge recommended dismissing a pro se state prisoner’s § 2254 petition because it attacks the outcome of a prior § 1983 data-breach lawsuit rather than the constitutionality of his custody.
A magistrate judge recommends dismissing a federal prisoner’s § 2241 petition for lack of jurisdiction, concluding that the savings clause of § 2255(e) does not allow a prisoner to use an intervening change in career-offender guideline interpretation to bypass AEDPA’s restrictions on sec
The district court adopted the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations in full, granted the petition for writ of habeas corpus, and made the preliminary injunction permanent after finding petitioner’s due process rights were violated when he was detained without compliance with 8 C.F.R. § 24
The district court left its adoption of the magistrate judge’s recommendation and dismissal of Mitchell Pyles’s § 2254 petition without prejudice in effect, overruled objections drawn from three later motions, and denied those motions.
The district court granted Daniel Sebastian Venegas-Murcia’s habeas petition in part, finding that his re-detention without notice, an individualized reason, or a hearing violated due process, and ordered the federal respondents to release him within twenty-four hours and not re-detain him wit
The court conducted in camera review of three confidential prison documents and ordered their redacted production to the pro se prisoner plaintiff, finding disclosure outweighs institutional safety concerns, and imposed a sua sponte protective order limiting use and retention.
The court adopts the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations in full, grants the petition for writ of habeas corpus, and enjoins respondents from re-detaining petitioners without written notice and a pre-detention hearing before a neutral adjudicator.
The district court adopted the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations in full, granted the petition for writ of habeas corpus, and enjoined respondents from re-detaining the petitioner without notice and a pre-deprivation hearing before an immigration judge where the government bears
The court granted Carl Henry Obin’s amended habeas petition and ordered his release on his prior terms because ICE re-detained him without notice, an opportunity to be heard, or evidence of materially changed circumstances concerning danger or flight risk.
The court granted the petition for writ of habeas corpus and ordered the respondent to provide the petitioner with a bond hearing before a neutral decisionmaker within 14 days, at which the government bears the burden of proving flight risk or danger to the community by clear and convincing evidence
The court granted a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, ordering the immediate release of a Haitian national who was detained by ICE without a pre-deprivation hearing or bond hearing after his parole was revoked, finding the detention violated due process.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for all defendants in a pretrial detainee’s § 1983 action, holding that the district court correctly applied the objective deliberate indifference standard under the Fourteenth Amendment and that the plaintiff fail
The court granted a pro se habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, ordering the government to provide a bond hearing before a neutral arbiter within seven days for a Honduran national detained since September 2026, after respondents conceded the Ninth Circuit’s rejection of mandatory detention