| 25-429 |
Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Granted |
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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… |
| 24A1157 |
Nyynkpao Banyee v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Presumed Complete |
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due-process-clause habeas-corpus immigration-detention mandatory-detention noncitizen-detention removal-proceedings |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Under Mendoza-Lopez, does a defendant satisfy § 1326(d)(1) (requiring only the exhaustion of "available" administrative remedies) and § 1326(d)(2) (re… |
| 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 |
Petitioner Pierre Riley, ineligible for cancellation of removal or discretionary relief from removal, sought deferral in withholding-only proceedings,… |
| 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 in violation of a … |
| 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)(G), 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Under 8 U.S.C. 1229a(b)(5), a noncitizen may be ordered removed in absentia when he "does not attend a [removal] proceeding" "after written notice req… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a "Notice to Appear" that fails to include the date and time of… |
| 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 |
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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 |
After a non-citizen is removed, 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) criminalizes his return without authorization. A non-citizen charged with illegally re-entering the… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear (NTA) that… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a "notice to appear" that fails to specify the hearing's time … |
| 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 |
Alfredo Arroyo-Hernandez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did n… |
| 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 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Garcia was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "Notice to Appear" that did not tell Mr. Rodri… |
| 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 |
Benito Moreno-Rodriguez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to … |
| 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 |
Anastacio Castruita-Escobedo, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notic… |
| 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 |
I. Whether and under what circumstances the government may invoke collateral estoppel against a criminal defendant based on a prior administrative age… |
| 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 |
Edwin Virgilio Gomez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to app… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen
where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did n… |
| 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 |
1. Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Ramirez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
2. In an illegal … |
| 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 |
Petitioner Joseph Hechavarria, an immigrant, has been ordered removed from the United States for having committed a crime of violence as defined by 18… |
| 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 |
Ciro Cruz-Lopez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to appear" … |
| 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 |
1. Whether a court of appeals may conclusively presume that an asylum applicant's testimony is credible and true whenever an immigration judge or the … |
| 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 |
Milton Mayorga, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to appear" t… |
| 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 |
1. Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Pineda because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
2. In an illeg… |
| 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 |
1. Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mora because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
2. In an illegal ree… |
| 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 |
Carlos Javier Pedroza-Rocha, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice… |
| 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 |
A defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States after deportation or removal has a right under United States v. Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S… |
| 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 |
Petitioners are Iraqis with final orders of removal who lived for years or decades in the United States under orders of supervision, because Iraq woul… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
This petition presents a request for error correction. The Ninth Circuit held that the entry of a prior administrative-removal order against Petitione… |
| 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 |
This case presents issues related to the failure of the 330th Family District Court, Dallas County, Texas, to observe federal jurisdiction during a re… |
| 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… |