Mandamus decisions / District of Colorado
Colic v. Barr
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
USCIS
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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) interviewed Ms. Colic regarding her Form N-400 on or about April 20, 2018. |
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| Form or filing |
N-400 (naturalization)
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Ms. Colic applied for United States citizenship by completing and submitting her Application for Naturalization (“Form N-400”) in Denver, Colorado on or about September 5, 2017. |
| What the suit asked for |
Naturalization hearing or remand (1447(b))
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Ms. Colic filed the instant civil action seeking a naturalization determination from this court pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b) on May 28, 2019. |
| Kind of order |
A ruling on a motion or the petition
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Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss [#33] is GRANTED |
| Motion decided |
Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction
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Defendants filed the instant Motion pursuant to Rule 12(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on February 21, 2020. |
| Whose motion |
The government's motion
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Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss [#33] is GRANTED |
| Disposition |
Dismissed as moot
Dismissed or denied as moot because the agency acted.
Read by a model
Accordingly, there is no relief this court can provide, rendering this civil action moot. |
| Prevailing party |
Neither side
Read by a model
Accordingly, there is no relief this court can provide, rendering this civil action moot. |
| The delay claim |
Moot: the agency acted
Read by a model
Accordingly, there is no relief this court can provide, rendering this civil action moot. |
| Months pending |
20.7 months from the application to the suit; 25.3 months from the application to the agency's action
A section 1447(b) suit: these months run from the naturalization application. The statute's 120 days run from the interview, which they do not measure.
Read by a model
The USCIS denied Ms. Colic’s Form N-400 on October 15, 2019. |
| Months since the naturalization interview |
17.8 months from the interview (2018-04-20)
Read by a model
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) interviewed Ms. Colic regarding her Form N-400 on or about April 20, 2018. |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings |
Held moot
Read by a model
Accordingly, there is no relief this court can provide, rendering this civil action moot. |
| Nationality |
Yugoslavia
Read by a model
For consistency, the court will identify Ms. Colic as a citizen of Yugoslavia. |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 1:19-cv-01511
- Filed
- May 28, 2019
- Ended
- August 30, 2019
- Suit's filing to its end
- 94 days
- How it ended
- Remanded to the agency
- From the record
- idb disp 11 (remanded to U.S. agency)
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 Tenth 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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Al-Maleki v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1200
Tenth Circuit, March 18, 2009. A § 1447(b) remand ordering USCIS to administer the oath by a date certain is enforceable merits relief, and the government's request for an open-ended remand after missing the 120-day deadline was not substantially justified.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 3 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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Forest Guardians v. Babbitt, 174 F.3d 1178
Tenth Circuit, April 22, 1999. Missing a concrete statutory deadline is agency action unlawfully withheld that a court must compel, while without a deadline the question is unreasonable delay; the holding still binds in the Tenth Circuit.
ImmCite: caution, adverse or limiting treatment found. Not followed in the Ninth Circuit by Al Otro Lado v. Noem, 138 F.4th 1102 (2025).