Mandamus decisions / Western District of Michigan
Rondan Jarrett v. Kevin Raycraft
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
ICE
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On October 22, 2025, Petitioner was arrested and detained by ICE agents. |
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| Form or filing |
I-485 (adjustment of status)
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With the petition, Petitioner also sought a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction staying Petitioner’s removal and requesting expedited consideration of his pending application for adjustment of status. |
| What the suit asked for | Not recorded Read by a model |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
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the Court will enter a Judgment granting Petitioner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. |
| Motion decided | None Read by a model |
| Whose motion |
The plaintiff's motion
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the Court will enter a Judgment granting Petitioner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. |
| Disposition |
Granted in the applicant'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.
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For the reasons discussed above, the Court will enter a Judgment granting Petitioner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. |
| Prevailing party |
Applicant
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The Court will order Respondents to release Petitioner from custody, subject to any conditions that existed under Petitioner’s § 1182(d)(5)(A) parole. |
| The delay claim |
Not decided here
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the Court does not address other claims and other requested relief in Petitioner’s § 2241 petition. |
| The other claims |
Relief ordered
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The Court will order Respondents to release Petitioner from custody, subject to any conditions that existed under Petitioner’s § 1182(d)(5)(A) parole. |
| Months pending |
15.9 months from the application to the court's decision
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Then, on October 11, 2024, Petitioner filed an application for adjustment of status under the Cuban Adjustment Act. |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings | None Read by a model |
| Nationality |
Cuba
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Petitioner is a native and citizen of Cuba. |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 1:26-cv-00244
- Filed
- January 22, 2026
- Ended
- February 6, 2026
- Suit's filing to its end
- 15 days
- How it ended
- Judgment for the plaintiff
- From the record
- idb disp 6 (judgment: motion before trial), judgment for plaintiff
A voluntary or stipulated dismissal is how most suits end once the agency acts; the docket rarely says why.
Supreme Court and Sixth 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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Barrios Garcia v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 25 F.4th 430
Sixth Circuit, February 10, 2022. Courts may review and compel unreasonably delayed U-visa waitlist placement and bona fide determinations under TRAC, though not discretionary pre-waitlist work authorization, disagreeing in part with the Fourth Circuit's Gonzalez.
ImmCite: unchecked, treatment not confirmed yet, not evidence either way. No verified adverse treatment has been found so far. All 2 precedential decisions citing this case have been reviewed as of 2026-10-29.