immigration-detention

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-828 The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Amici (1) federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage supremacy-clause work-program Whether the Supremacy Clause allows a state to reclassify federal immigration detainees participating in a federal work program as employees and there…
25A464 The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-23 Application federal-contractors federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage voluntary-work-program Question not identified.
24A1157 Nyynkpao Banyee v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-28 Presumed Complete due-process-clause habeas-corpus immigration-detention mandatory-detention noncitizen-detention removal-proceedings Question not identified.
24-6094 Ramone Wright v. Milton Graham, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6237 Gregory I. Ezeani v. William Anderson, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process federal-prisoner healthcare-denial immigration immigration-detention medical-negligence medical-treatment retaliation Briefly, the plaintiff who is a native and citizen of Nigeria arrived in United states from Canada for engineering graduate studies. The plaintiff is …
23-5673 Javier Martinez v. Lowell Clark, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 GVR Relisted (3)IFP 8-usc-1226 discretionary-determination due-process habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review mixed-question-of-law-and-fact statutory-interpretation (1) Whether an agency's determination that undisputed or established facts demonstrate an immigration detainee is a "danger to the community" is a dis…
23A143 Javier Martinez v. Lowell Clark, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-17 Presumed Complete dangerousness-determination due-process-clause immigration-detention judicial-review mandatory-detention mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact 1. The Ninth Circuit concluded - over the dissent of eleven judges who disagreed with the decision not to reconsider the decision en banc - that the j…
22-6710 David Wekesa v. United States Attorney, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8-usc-1226c civil-rights due-process immigration-detention judicial-review mandatory-detention procedural-protections reasonableness-of-detention statutory-interpretation 1. Whether due process mandates procedural protections during lengthy periods of mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c). 2. How long does deten…
21-7784 Idania Renteria Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 consecutive-incarceration consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-detention liberty-deprivation sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court excessively sentenced Petitioner to consecutive incarceration and deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18…
21-400 Melecia Baltazar-Sebastian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived article-iii-court bail-reform-act civil-detention executive-branch executive-branch-authority immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-detention separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether it violates the separation of powers for executive branch officials to keep a person in civil detention on the basis of factual findings th…
20-6587 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-risk due-process habeas-corpus humanitarian-parole immigration immigration-detention medical-vulnerability public-health Question not identified.
20-322 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Esteban Aleman Gonzalez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (2) administrative-law bond-hearing danger-to-community due-process flight-risk immigration-detention statutory-interpretation Whether an alien who is detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled by statute, after six months of detention, to a bond hearing at which the government …
20-234 Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Yolany Padilla, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-27 GVR 5th-amendment classwide-injunction credible-fear detention due-process expedited-removal immigration immigration-detention statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(l)(B)(ii) —which authorizes the government to detain aliens who are placed in expedited removal proceedings, but who then …
19-8163 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-04-02 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process executive-authority habeas-corpus immigration immigration-detention Question not identified.
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…
19-896 Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Antonio Arteaga-Martinez Third Circuit 2020-01-21 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) administrative-law bond-hearing clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process flight-risk immigration-detention immigration-law statutory-interpretation Whether an alien who is detained under 8 U.S.C. 1231 is entitled by statute, after six months of detention, to a bond hearing at which the government …
19-6305 Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-bond bail-release civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process immigration immigration-detention immigration-orders non-citizen release statutory-period unsecured-bail Whether a non-citizen defendant, granted unsecured bail, whom immigration officials have failed to take into custody during the statutory 10-day perio…
18-5423 Seungjin Kim v. United States Customs and Border Protection District of Columbia 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP asylum asylum-seekers border-entry constitutional-law criminal-activity detention detention-conditions due-process equal-protection immigration-detention immigration-law presidential-authority presidential-powers visa-restrictions Whether under 8 U.S.C. §1225(b)(1)(B)(ii), inadmissible aliens who are Asylum Seekers include immigrant victim who is not an applicant for, or is not …