A federal district court denied without prejudice a habeas petition over two months of ICE detention without a bond hearing because it was undisputed that 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) entitled the petitioner to a hearing, which Respondents did not oppose scheduling.
After de novo review, a federal district judge adopted a magistrate judge’s screening recommendations, dismissed all claims except an Eighth Amendment excessive force claim against E. Noujaime, and terminated three defendants.
A magistrate judge recommended immediate release, with ISAP monitoring, of an asylum seeker held about 16 months under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1), concluding that continued detention violates substantive due process.
A magistrate judge recommended granting an ICE detainee’s habeas petition and releasing him under supervision because his removal order names Uganda, two removal attempts failed, and the government offered no timeline for removal.
A federal district court in the Eastern District of California granted a detained immigrant’s habeas petition as to count one, relying on its earlier preliminary-injunction order, made that injunctive relief permanent, and closed the case without reaching the remaining counts.
A magistrate judge recommends dismissing, without prejudice, an immigration detainee’s habeas petition challenging indefinite detention because he is still within the six-month presumptively reasonable period recognized in Zadvydas v. Davis and his claims are not yet ripe.
A federal district court granted a habeas petition and ordered immediate release of a noncitizen whom ICE re-arrested after an earlier release on recognizance under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a), holding that due process required notice and a pre-deprivation hearing.
A magistrate judge recommended that a pro se immigration detainee’s habeas petition be dismissed without prejudice, rejecting his as-applied due process challenge to continued detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) and finding his challenge to the immigration judge’s bond denial unexhausted
A magistrate judge recommends granting a habeas petition and releasing an immigration detainee with long-pending deferred action applications because he was arrested without any pre-deprivation notice or hearing, and a later bond hearing did not cure that violation.
A federal district court denied without prejudice a detained noncitizen’s habeas petition, holding that an immigration judge did not abuse her discretion in finding him a flight risk at a second bond hearing and that his detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) had not become unconstitutionally prol
A federal district court adopted unopposed magistrate judge findings and granted habeas relief, ordering a bond hearing within fourteen days at which the government must prove danger or flight risk by clear and convincing evidence.
A federal district court in the Eastern District of California granted an immigration detainee’s habeas petition and ordered a bond hearing within 14 days at which the government must prove danger or flight risk by clear and convincing evidence.
A district court denied a pro se immigration detainee’s habeas petition because his unappealed removal order became final, shifting his detention to mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(2) and leaving his earlier due process challenge undecided.
A federal district court granted a pro se immigration detainee’s habeas petition, ordering immediate release and barring re-detention unless Respondents show flight risk or danger by clear and convincing evidence at a pre-deprivation bond hearing.
A magistrate judge recommends granting habeas relief and ordering the immediate release of a Vietnamese national re-detained by ICE without a showing that his removal had become significantly likely.
A magistrate judge recommended dismissing, without prejudice, an immigration detainee’s second habeas petition as an abuse of the writ because he had already received a court-ordered bond hearing on the same due process claim.
A federal district court in the Eastern District of California granted habeas relief on the Third Claim for Relief, ordered an immigration detainee released immediately, and barred re-arrest absent pre-deprivation notice and a timely hearing at which the government bears a clear-and-convincing burde
A magistrate judge recommended granting habeas relief and immediate release for a humanitarian parolee whose parole had expired, finding that his re-arrest without a pre-deprivation hearing violated procedural due process.
A federal district court granted an immigration detainee’s habeas petition and ordered his immediate release because a bond hearing he requested on September 21, 2026 had not been provided.
A magistrate judge in the Eastern District of California recommended granting an immigration detainee’s habeas petition, finding that an arrest alone is not evidence of a release violation and that re-detention without notice and a chance to contest it violated due process.
An Eastern District of California judge granted an immigration detainee’s habeas petition and ordered his immediate release, finding that the lengthy delay in providing a statutorily required bond hearing violated due process, and required notice and a neutral-arbiter hearing before any re-det
A federal district court granted habeas relief and ordered the immediate release of a noncitizen previously released on recognizance, holding that his re-detention for two and a half months without a custody determination or hearing violated the Fifth Amendment.
A federal district court granted a habeas petition and ordered the immediate release of a noncitizen held for nearly two weeks under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) without the notice and neutral hearing that the Fifth Amendment requires.
A federal district judge in the Eastern District of California granted an immigration detainee’s habeas petition, ordering his immediate release because the lengthy delay in providing a statutorily mandated bond hearing violated due process.