Mandamus decisions / Eastern District of California

Mohamed v. Pompeo

Eastern District of CaliforniaLawrence J. O'NeillDecided September 27, 2019No. 1:19-cv-01345

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Agency	Department of State Read by a model The U.S. Embassy in Djibouti’s own 7 communications to the Djibouti Plaintiffs suggest that the United States is continuing to process the 8 Djibouti Plaintiff’s visa applications.
Form or filing	221(g) (consular refusal); DS-260 (immigrant visa) Read by a model Plaintiff Muhjah alleges that she completed her diversity 8 visa application
What the suit asked for	Finish 221(g) processing Read by a model seeking to compel Defendants to perform a non-discretionary 22 duty, including lawful adjudication of their visa applications.
Kind of order	A ruling on a motion or the petition Read by a model all other requirements for mandatory injunctive relief have been satisfied. Therefore, the Court 13 mandates the Defendants Department of State and its agents, employees, officers, and representatives to 14 issue a decision
Motion decided	Preliminary injunction or TRO Read by a model On the same day, Plaintiffs filed a motion for an 18 emergency writ of mandamus and preliminary injunction.
Whose motion	The plaintiff's motion Read by a model Plaintiffs filed a motion for an 18 emergency writ of mandamus and preliminary injunction.
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. Read by a model Therefore, the Court 13 mandates the Defendants Department of State and its agents, employees, officers, and representatives to 14 issue a decision
Prevailing party	Applicant Read by a model Therefore, the Court 13 mandates the Defendants Department of State and its agents, employees, officers, and representatives to 14 issue a decision
The delay claim	Relief ordered Read by a model issue a decision on the visa applications of Muhjah Abdoalnasar Mohammned Ahmed and all 15 derivatives in Defendants ’ file number 2019AS2866, on or before noon California time, September 28, 16 2019.
Months pending	Not stated Read by a model
TRAC factors	The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model
Threshold rulings	Consular nonreviewability rejected; Mootness argument rejected Read by a model But the consular nonreviewability doctrine is 20 wholly inapplicable here, where (as discussed below) no visa determination has been made.
Nationality	Djibouti Read by a model Plaintiffs 25 Muhjah, Mazen , and the Minor Plaintiffs are naturalized citizens of Djibouti

Other orders in this case

The group holds 3 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
Mohamed v. PompeoThis decision	September 27, 2019	Lawrence J. O'Neill	Granted in the applicant's favor
Mohamed v. Pompeo	July 13, 2020		Stipulated or agreed order
Mohamed v. PompeoThe case's latest decision: its outcome is the one counted	January 19, 2022		Attorney's fees

How the case ended

Docket: No. 1:19-cv-01345
Filed: September 25, 2019
Ended: July 13, 2020
Suit's filing to its end: 292 days
How it ended: Ended once the agency acted
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

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Department of State v. Muñoz, 602 U.S. 899

Supreme Court, June 21, 2024. A U.S. citizen has no fundamental liberty interest in a noncitizen spouse's admission, so marriage alone entitles the citizen neither to Mandel review of the consular refusal nor to an explanation beyond the statutory citation.

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Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. 667

Supreme Court, June 26, 2018. Mandel's facially-legitimate-and-bona-fide standard governs constitutional challenges to entry restrictions, and a citation to a valid statutory ground ordinarily satisfies it.

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Kleindienst v. Mandel, 408 U.S. 753

Supreme Court, June 29, 1972. When a visa refusal burdens a U.S. citizen's own constitutional rights, courts ask only whether the Executive gave a facially legitimate and bona fide reason and do not look behind it.

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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.

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Allen v. Milas, 896 F.3d 1094

Ninth Circuit, July 24, 2018. The APA provides no avenue for review of a consular visa refusal beyond Mandel's facially-legitimate-and-bona-fide inquiry, and consular nonreviewability is not a jurisdictional bar.

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Sanchez Gonzalez v. United States Department of State, No. 23-4205 (9th Cir. Apr. 30, 2026)

Ninth Circuit, April 30, 2026. After Muñoz, a citizen spouse's own First Amendment interest triggered Mandel review, which a facially legitimate and bona fide reason satisfied absent a showing of bad faith.

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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.

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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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