Mandamus decisions / Western District of Oklahoma
Hernandez v. Immigration Customs Enforcement
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
ICE
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Rather, he seeks to compel ICE to move forward with his detainer because it was lodged more than five years ago and the agency has yet to take any action thereon. |
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| Form or filing | None named Read by a model |
| What the suit asked for |
Some other action
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Here Mr. Hernandez requests that the Court compel the Attorney General to commence removal proceedings by acting upon the detainer filed with the State of Oklahoma. |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
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The action is therefore subject to dismissal. The Report and Recommendation is ADOPTED to the extent it is consistent with this Order. |
| Motion decided | None Read by a model |
| Whose motion |
The plaintiff's motion
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Mr. Hernandez, who is currently in state custody serving a state sentence, initiated this action by filing a Motion to Compel Agency Action (Doc. No. 1) on April 10, 2019. |
| Disposition |
Dismissed
The case or every delay claim was dismissed for a reason other than mootness.
Read by a model
The action is therefore subject to dismissal. The Report and Recommendation is ADOPTED to the extent it is consistent with this Order. |
| Prevailing party |
Government
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The action is therefore subject to dismissal. |
| The delay claim |
Dismissed
Read by a model
The action is therefore subject to dismissal. |
| Months pending | Not stated Read by a model |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings | None Read by a model |
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Supreme Court and Tenth Circuit authority
District decisions bind no one. On the questions this decision raises, the Supreme Court decisions and the circuit's published decisions listed here bind this court; a circuit disposition marked nonprecedential was not published as precedent and is persuasive only. ImmCite status as read November 3, 2026. Check the current status before relying on one.
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Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 542 U.S. 55
Supreme Court, June 14, 2004. Section 706(1) and mandamus reach only a discrete agency action that the agency is legally required to take, so a court cannot compel programmatic improvements or action the law leaves to agency discretion.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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Forest Guardians v. Babbitt, 174 F.3d 1178
Tenth Circuit, April 22, 1999. Missing a concrete statutory deadline is agency action unlawfully withheld that a court must compel, while without a deadline the question is unreasonable delay; the holding still binds in the Tenth Circuit.
ImmCite: caution, adverse or limiting treatment found. Not followed in the Ninth Circuit by Al Otro Lado v. Noem, 138 F.4th 1102 (2025).