The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted Isaias Ros Domingo’s habeas petition, ordering his release by November 5, 2026, and enjoining redetention without an individualized bond hearing.
A federal district court granted a habeas corpus petition and ordered the immediate release of a Haitian national who was re-detained by ICE without notice or a hearing after being paroled into the United States, finding the revocation of his parole violated the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process C
A federal district court granted in part a Guatemalan national’s habeas petition challenging his immigration detention, ordering the government to arrange an individualized bond hearing within seven days and rejecting arguments that the petition was moot or required further administrative exha
A federal district court conditionally appointed Federal Defenders of San Diego to represent a pro se habeas petitioner, set a briefing schedule, and enjoined ICE/DHS from removing him from the United States or the district pending further order.
The court held that the detainee’s repeated challenges to revocation of release and re-detention were barred by abuse of the writ, but allowed separate challenges to his ongoing detention to proceed and granted his motion to appoint counsel.
A California federal court allowed a prisoner’s due process claims against three correctional officers to proceed over clothing and personal items allegedly not returned after a medical emergency, while dismissing all other claims and defendants.
A federal magistrate judge reissued service after an administrative error and found that a prisoner’s allegations of a retaliatory cell search stated a cognizable First Amendment retaliation claim.
A magistrate judge in the Eastern District of California recommended dismissing a federal prisoner’s pro se § 2241 habeas petition because his claims about a denied medical device and inadequate care challenge the conditions of his confinement, not the fact or duration of it, and declined to c
The Northern District of California preliminarily barred immigration officials from re-detaining Shirley Bobb Sequeira without notice and a hearing before a neutral immigration judge at which the government must prove by clear and convincing evidence that changed circumstances make her a danger or f
The Northern District of California allowed Jones’s false-arrest, false-imprisonment, and County state-law claims to proceed, but dismissed several inadequately pleaded claims with leave to amend by December 2, 2026.
A federal district court remanded a privacy case to California state court after finding the plaintiff lacked Article III standing because he failed to allege a concrete injury similar to common-law privacy invasions.
An Eastern District of California magistrate judge recommended granting a detained noncitizen’s habeas petition because her detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) entitled her to a bond hearing.
A federal district court adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendations in full, granting an immigration detainee’s habeas petition, denying the government’s motion to dismiss, denying the no-transfer motion as moot, and ordering the government to provide an individualized bond heari
A magistrate judge vacated findings and recommendations that would have dismissed a prisoner’s civil-rights action without prejudice because he filed an amended complaint, while warning that the filing was late and that future untimely submissions may be stricken.
A magistrate judge recommended dismissing a Mauritanian detainee’s § 2241 habeas petition, concluding that his detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(6) remained lawful because he had not shown there was no significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future.
An Eastern District of California magistrate judge recommended granting a Venezuelan noncitizen’s habeas petition and ordering his immediate release, concluding that the government’s mandatory-detention theory failed under Ninth Circuit precedent and its own acknowledgment about the sign
A magistrate judge recommended granting a habeas petition and ordering the immediate release of a Honduran asylum seeker who was re-detained by ICE without written notice or a pre-deprivation hearing, finding the re-arrest violated his Fifth Amendment procedural due process rights.
The Eastern District of California adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendations, granted an immigration detainee’s habeas petition on his due process claim, and ordered his immediate release under his prior conditions.
A magistrate judge recommended granting Gabriel’s habeas petition and ordering his immediate release, finding that his re-detention without a constitutionally compliant bond hearing violated due process.
The Eastern District of California granted Manis Orael’s habeas petition and ordered his immediate release, holding that his prior parole and the government’s permission to remain created a liberty interest requiring pre-deprivation notice and a hearing before detention.
The Eastern District of California granted an immigration detainee’s habeas petition and ordered a constitutionally adequate bond hearing within fourteen days, with the government bearing the burden by clear and convincing evidence.
The Eastern District of California granted an immigration detainee’s habeas petition and ordered a constitutionally adequate bond hearing within fourteen days, with the government bearing the burden to justify continued detention by clear and convincing evidence.
The court granted a detained immigrant’s habeas petition, finding that his re-detention without notice and an opportunity to be heard violated due process and ordering his immediate release.
A federal magistrate judge ordered a state prisoner to show cause within thirty days why his habeas corpus petition should not be dismissed for failure to exhaust state remedies: the petition showed no indication that the due process claim was presented to the California Supreme Court, and stated th