Passim

Mandamus decisions / Northern District of Iowa

Velazquez Ramirez v. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Northern District of IowaDecided December 29, 2025No. 1:25-cv-00140

Read the decisionOriginal on CourtListener

2,996 written decisions from 2,731 cases in the whole mandamus and agency-delay group, the group's newest decided November 12, 2026. Updated November 14, 2026 at 1:17 a.m. CT; the Passim connector counts the live collection, which can differ by the day's additions and retirements (which total to quote). Coverage: of the 1,617 public decisions since January 1, 2025 that a CourtListener and GovInfo search for mandamus and agency delay finds, Passim holds 1,406 (87%), 1,039 of them in this group, measured November 14, 2026. Some of what that search finds are not mandamus decisions. Tell us about a decision we're missing.

These are counts of past written decisions and dockets, not predictions of how any case will be decided. A distribution appears only when at least 5 decisions (or 5 dockets) are behind it; smaller groups are listed, not summarized. How it's counted.

What the decision decided

Each value cites the passage it was read from. Values read by a model were checked against that passage; values read by rule come from fixed text patterns. Read the decision before relying on either.

Agency ICE Read by a model
he requests that the Court order Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) officials to come to the Anamosa State Prison [(“ASP”)] and take custody of his person for removal from the United States back to Mexico, his country of origin.
Form or filing None named Read by a model
What the suit asked for Some other action Read by a model
he requests that the Court order Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) officials to come to the Anamosa State Prison [(“ASP”)] and take custody of his person for removal from the United States back to Mexico, his country of origin.
Kind of order A ruling on a motion or the petition Read by a model
For the reasons stated, the Court grants respondents’ motion to dismiss.
Motion decided Other motion to dismiss Read by a model
For the reasons stated, the Court grants respondents’ motion to dismiss.
Whose motion The government's motion Read by a model
Respondents filed a motion to dismiss the petition.
Disposition Dismissed The case or every delay claim was dismissed for a reason other than mootness. Read by a model
For the reasons stated, the Court grants respondents’ motion to dismiss. (Doc. 5). Petitioner’s Petition for Writ of Mandamus, (Doc. 1), is dismissed.
Prevailing party Government Read by a model
For the reasons stated, the Court grants respondents’ motion to dismiss.
The other claims Dismissed Read by a model
Petitioner’s Petition for Writ of Mandamus, (Doc. 1), is dismissed.
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
Nationality Mexico Read by a model
Petitioner is not a United States citizen, and remains a citizen of Mexico.

How the case ended

Docket
No. 1:25-cv-00140
On the docket
This ruling (ECF 7), deciding the motion (ECF 5)
Filed
August 26, 2025
Ended
December 29, 2025
Suit's filing to its end
125 days
How it ended
Dismissed on jurisdiction or the merits
From the record
idb disp 3 (dismissed: lack of jurisdiction)

A voluntary or stipulated dismissal is how most suits end once the agency acts; the docket rarely says why. Other suits in this court.

The ruling's entry is the docket's one order or judgment entered the day of the decision, and the motion number is read from that entry's text. Both come from CourtListener's copy of the docket; check them there.

Supreme Court and Eighth 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 14, 2026. Check the current status before relying on one.