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Sadowski v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service

Southern District of New YorkVictor MarreroDecided August 4, 2000No. 1:99-cv-09269

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What the decision decided

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Agency Not recorded Read by a model
Form or filing I-485 (adjustment of status) Read by a model
Sadowski filed an I-485 form, an INS application for status as a permanent resident
What the suit asked for Not recorded Read by a model
Kind of order A ruling on a motion or the petition Read by a model
ORDERED that Mariusz Sadowski's motion for summary judgment is denied; and it is further ORDERED that defendants' cross motion to dismiss is granted.
Motion decided Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction; Summary judgment Read by a model
ORDERED that Mariusz Sadowski's motion for summary judgment is denied; and it is further ORDERED that defendants' cross motion to dismiss is granted.
Whose motion Cross-motions Read by a model
ORDERED that Mariusz Sadowski's motion for summary judgment is denied; and it is further ORDERED that defendants' cross motion to dismiss is granted.
Disposition Dismissed The case or every delay claim was dismissed for a reason other than mootness. Read by a model
ORDERED that defendants' cross motion to dismiss is granted.
Prevailing party Government Read by a model
ORDERED that defendants' cross motion to dismiss is granted.
The delay claim Dismissed Read by a model
ORDERED that defendants' cross motion to dismiss is granted.
The other claims Dismissed Read by a model
ORDERED that defendants' cross motion to dismiss is granted.
Months pending 47.9 months from the application to the suit 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
Sadowski filed an I-485 form, an INS application for status as a permanent resident, on August 31, 1995
TRAC factors The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model
Threshold rulings Section 1252(a)(2)(B) bar applied; Held moot Read by a model
That provision therefore effectively bars judicial review of a § 1255 application denial.
Nationality Poland Read by a model
a native and citizen of Poland

How the case ended

Docket
No. 1:99-cv-09269
Filed
August 27, 1999
Ended
August 10, 2000
Suit's filing to its end
349 days
How it ended
Dismissed on jurisdiction or the merits
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.

Supreme Court and Second 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.