Mandamus decisions / Western District of Michigan
Flores Colina v. Raycraft
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What the decision decided
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ICE
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No. 1.) Petitioner is a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee currently detained at the North Lake Processing Center located in Baldwin, Lake County, Michigan. Petitioner challenges the |
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| Form or filing |
I-589 (asylum)
Read by rule
On January 19, 2025, Petitioner filed a Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding Removal. (I- 797C, Notice of Action, ECF No. 1-2, PageID.24.) Petitioner’s application for |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 1:26-cv-00013
- Filed
- January 5, 2026
- Ended
- January 22, 2026
- Suit's filing to its end
- 17 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Supreme Court decisions and the circuit's published decisions listed here bind this court; a circuit disposition marked nonprecedential was not published as precedent and is persuasive only.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 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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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 2026-11-13.