Mandamus decisions / Eastern District of California
Jammu v. Bardini
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
USCIS
Read by a model
USCIS 8 follows what is called the last-in-first-out scheduling system for handling asylum 9 applications. |
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| Form or filing |
I-589 (asylum)
Read by a model
Plaintiff Balwinder Jammu (“Jammu”) submitted an Application for 17 Asylum and for Withholding of Removal (“I-589 application”) |
| What the suit asked for |
Decide the asylum application
Read by a model
Plaintiffs filed their Complaint on July 29, 2024, seeking to compel Defendants to 2 schedule an asylum office interview and to adjudicate Plaintiff Jammu’s I-589 3 application. |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
Read by a model
Defendants’ motion for summary judgment is granted. |
| Motion decided |
Summary judgment
Read by a model
Defendants’ motion for summary judgment is granted. |
| Whose motion |
The government's motion
Read by a model
Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss or, Alternatively, for Summary Judgment (ECF 28 No. 13) is GRANTED; |
| Disposition |
Granted in the government's favor
The principal motion was granted in full: summary judgment for either side, an injunction or TRO, a writ or order to act, fees. A motion to dismiss granted in full counts as Dismissed; a transfer is listed apart.
Read by a model
Defendants’ motion for summary judgment is granted. |
| Prevailing party |
Government
Read by a model
Judgment shall be entered for Defendants; |
| The delay claim |
Relief denied
Read by a model
Therefore, Defendants are entitled to summary 24 judgment on Plaintiff’s APA claim for unreasonable delay. |
| Months pending |
25.2 months from the application to the suit; 36.5 months from the application to the court's decision
Read by a model
Plaintiff Balwinder Jammu (“Jammu”) submitted an Application for 17 Asylum and for Withholding of Removal (“I-589 application”) with the San Francisco 18 Asylum Office on or about June 23, 2022. |
| TRAC factors |
The court weighed the TRAC factors
The Court finds 21 the first TRAC factor favors Defendants. |
| The government's delay arguments |
First-in, first-out processing accepted; Line-jumping accepted
Read by a model
USCIS 8 follows what is called the last-in-first-out scheduling system for handling asylum 9 applications. Courts have widely found that the last-in-first-out system is a rule of reason. |
| Threshold rulings | None Read by a model |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 2:24-cv-02063
- Filed
- July 29, 2024
- Ended
- July 8, 2025
- Suit's filing to its end
- 344 days
- How it ended
- Dismissed on jurisdiction or the merits
- From the record
- idb disp 6 (judgment: motion before trial), judgment for defendant
A voluntary or stipulated dismissal is how most suits end once the agency acts; the docket rarely says why. Other suits in this court.
Supreme Court and Ninth 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.
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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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Independence Mining Co. v. Babbitt, 105 F.3d 502
Ninth Circuit, January 23, 1997. Mandamus and APA § 706(1) claims to compel delayed agency action are analyzed alike under the TRAC factors.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance
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Vaz v. Neal, 33 F.4th 1131
Ninth Circuit, May 9, 2022. Section 706(1) compels only a clear, mandatory and discrete duty that has been unreasonably delayed under TRAC, and the APA's prerequisites go to the merits while § 1331 supplies jurisdiction.
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