Mandamus decisions / District of Maryland
Rubio v. Noem
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
USCIS
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captioned case to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) and noted that, should USCIS not adjudicate Plaintiff’s naturalization application within ninety days, he may |
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| Form or filing |
N-400 (naturalization)
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should USCIS not adjudicate Plaintiff’s naturalization application within ninety days, he may re-file his suit. Gurri Rubio v. Mullin, Case No. 25-cv-2756-ABA, 2026 WL 1194557, at *6 (D. Md. May 1, 2026). |
| Motion decided |
Preliminary injunction or TRO; Remand under 1447(b)
Read by rule
Gurri Rubio’s motion for leave to file excess pages will be granted, his motion to alter or amend judgment will be denied, and his emergency motion for TRO will be denied in part and denied as moot in part. |
Other orders in this case
The group holds 2 decisions from this suit, oldest first. Outcome counts on these pages count the case once, by its latest decision. How decisions are grouped into cases.
| Decision | Decided | Judge | Disposition |
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| Rubio v. NoemThe case's latest decision: its outcome is the one counted | May 1, 2026 | Adam B Abelson | Remanded to the agency |
| Rubio v. NoemThis decision | July 9, 2026 | Adam B Abelson | Not recorded |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 1:25-cv-02756
- On the docket
- This ruling (ECF 65)
- Filed
- August 21, 2025
- Ended
- May 1, 2026
- Suit's filing to its end
- 99 days
- How it ended
- Remanded to the agency
- From the record
- remand order 2026-05-01; idb disp 14 (dismissed: other)
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Supreme Court and Fourth 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Supreme Court decisions and the circuit's published decisions listed here bind this court; a circuit disposition marked nonprecedential was not published as precedent and is persuasive only.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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Etape v. Chertoff, 497 F.3d 379
Fourth Circuit, August 2, 2007. Filing under § 1447(b) vests exclusive jurisdiction over the naturalization application in the district court, so USCIS may not decide it unless the court remands.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 14 published decisions citing this case, as of 2026-11-13; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.
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Dubon v. Jaddou, 109 F.4th 307
Fourth Circuit, July 29, 2024. Whether to decide a § 1447(b) application or remand it to USCIS is within the district court's discretion, and a remand order is not an appealable collateral order.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 3 published decisions citing this case, as of 2026-10-29; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.
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Gonzalez v. Cuccinelli, 985 F.3d 357
Fourth Circuit, January 14, 2021. Courts may review delay in placing U-visa petitioners on the waitlist under the TRAC factors and should not dismiss such claims at the pleading stage, but lack jurisdiction over delay in pre-waitlist work-permit requests, a point on which the Sixth Circuit disagrees.
ImmCite: caution, adverse or limiting treatment found. Rejected in the Sixth Circuit by Barrios Garcia v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 25 F.4th 430 (2022).
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Lovo v. Miller, 107 F.4th 199
Fourth Circuit, July 3, 2024. The 'decision or action' language of § 1182(a)(9)(B)(v), which the court treated as coextensive with § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii), does not reach USCIS inaction, so a district court may hear a claim that USCIS unreasonably delayed a provisional unlawful-presence waiver.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 5 published decisions citing this case, as of 2026-11-07; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.