Mandamus decisions / District of Maryland
Kerry-Juma v. Noem
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What the decision decided
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| Agency |
ICE
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Because Petitioner’s visitor visa had expired, ICE detained him in May, 2025. |
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| Form or filing | None named Read by a model |
| 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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For the reasons stated above, Petitioner’s Petition, ECF 1, is GRANTED and his Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 5, is DENIED AS MOOT. |
| Motion decided |
Preliminary injunction or TRO
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For the reasons stated above, Petitioner’s Petition, ECF 1, is GRANTED and his Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 5, is DENIED AS MOOT. |
| Whose motion |
The plaintiff's motion
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Petitioner Junior Jeremias Kerry-Juma filed a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (“the Petition”) on December 6, 2025, ECF 1, and a motion for temporary restraining order (“TRO”) seeking immediate release from custody, ECF 5. |
| 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
For the reasons stated above, Petitioner’s Petition, ECF 1, is GRANTED and his Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 5, is DENIED AS MOOT. |
| Prevailing party |
Applicant
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He will be ordered released from Respondents’ custody subject to the conditions of supervision imposed at his earlier bond hearing. |
| The other claims |
Relief ordered
Read by a model
Petitioner will be ordered released from detention subject to his existing ICE/ISAP requirements. |
| Months pending | Not stated Read by a model |
| TRAC factors | The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model |
| Threshold rulings | None Read by a model |
| Nationality |
Dominican Republic
Read by a model
Petitioner is a citizen of the Dominican Republic. |
How the case ended
- Docket
- No. 1:25-cv-04000
- Filed
- December 6, 2025
- Ended
- December 10, 2025
- Suit's filing to its end
- 4 days
- How it ended
- Dismissed, ground not recorded
- From the record
- idb disp 14 (dismissed: other)
A voluntary or stipulated dismissal is how most suits end once the agency acts; the docket rarely says why.
Supreme Court and Fourth 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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Gonzalez v. Cuccinelli, 985 F.3d 357
Fourth Circuit, January 14, 2021. Courts may review delay in placing U-visa petitioners on the waitlist under the TRAC factors and should not dismiss such claims at the pleading stage, but lack jurisdiction over delay in pre-waitlist work-permit requests, a point on which the Sixth Circuit disagrees.
ImmCite: caution, adverse or limiting treatment found. Rejected in the Sixth Circuit by Barrios Garcia v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 25 F.4th 430 (2022).
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Lovo v. Miller, 107 F.4th 199
Fourth Circuit, July 3, 2024. The 'decision or action' language of § 1182(a)(9)(B)(v), which the court treated as coextensive with § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii), does not reach USCIS inaction, so a district court may hear a claim that USCIS unreasonably delayed a provisional unlawful-presence waiver.
ImmCite: treatment available, history exists, not clearance. ImmCite has read all 5 published decisions citing this case, as of 2026-10-29; none treats it adversely. That describes those decisions; it is not a determination that the case is good law.