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Zhao v. Mayorkas

Eastern District of KentuckyEdward B. AtkinsDecided March 4, 2024No. 5:23-cv-00307

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Agency Not recorded Read by a model
Form or filing None named Read by a model
What the suit asked for Some other action Read by a model
Here, the Plaintiffs have received the relief they initially requested when they filed this case—the issuance of their green cards.
Kind of order A magistrate judge's recommendation Read by a model
REPORT & RECOMMENDATION
Motion decided Other motion to dismiss Read by a model
This matter is before the Court on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss.
Whose motion The government's motion Read by a model
This matter is before the Court on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss.
Disposition Magistrate judge's recommendation A magistrate judge's report and recommendation. The district judge decides whether to adopt it, so it is not counted as either side's win. Read by a model
REPORT & RECOMMENDATION
Prevailing party Neither side Read by a model
REPORT & RECOMMENDATION
The delay claim Moot: the agency acted Read by a model
Accordingly, given the evidence that indicates that the controversy is now moot and Plaintiffs’ failure to respond to the Motion to Dismiss, the undersigned will recommend that Defendants’ Motion be granted.
Months pending Not stated at filing The agency acted before this decision, so the months up to the decision are not a delay and are not shown. Read by a model
TRAC factors The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model
Threshold rulings Held moot Read by a model
Accordingly, given the evidence that indicates that the controversy is now moot and Plaintiffs’ failure to respond to the Motion to Dismiss, the undersigned will recommend that Defendants’ Motion be granted.

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.

DecisionDecidedJudgeDisposition
Zhao v. MayorkasThis decision March 4, 2024 Edward B. Atkins Magistrate judge's recommendation
Zhao v. MayorkasThe case's latest decision: its outcome is the one counted March 21, 2024 Gregory F. Van Tatenhove Dismissed as moot

How the case ended

Docket
No. 5:23-cv-00307
On the docket
This ruling (ECF 9)
Filed
November 2, 2023
Ended
March 21, 2024
Suit's filing to its end
140 days
How it ended
Ended once the agency acted
From the record
idb disp 14 (dismissed: other)

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Supreme Court and Sixth Circuit authority

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