Hernandez v. Gonzales, 05-2128.
| Decision Date | 16 September 2005 |
| Docket Number | No. 05-2128.,05-2128. |
| Citation | 424 F.3d 42 |
| Parties | Juan Carlos HERNANDEZ, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — First Circuit |
Kevin L. Barron, Boston, MA, for Petitioner.
Neil Cashman, Boston, MA, Nora Livers, Paralegal, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Mark J. Grady, Boston, MA, for Respondent.
Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.
On May 6, 2005, Juan Carlos Hernandez, a Mariel Cuban,1 filed a habeas corpus petition in the district court challenging his continued detention under Clark v. Martinez, ___ U.S. ___, 125 S.Ct. 716, 160 L.Ed.2d 734 (2005). On May 13, 2005, petitioner was released from custody, prompting the respondents to move to dismiss the habeas petition as moot. On July 18, 2005, without ruling on the motion to dismiss, the district court transferred the case to this court, purportedly under the Real ID Act. Because we conclude that the jurisdiction-stripping and transfer provisions of the Real ID Act do not apply to this petition, which challenges only the petitioner's detention rather than his removal (no administrative removal order has issued), we direct the Clerk to transfer this case back to the district court.
The Real ID Act deprives the district courts of habeas jurisdiction to review orders of removal, 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(5), as added by § 106(a)(1)(B) of the Real ID Act, Pub.L. 109-13, and further provides that habeas cases "challenging a final administrative order of removal" be transferred to the courts of appeals to be treated as petitions for judicial review, Real ID Act, § 106(c). As indicated in the legislative history of the Act, those provisions were not intended to "preclude habeas review over challenges to detention that are independent of challenges to removal orders." H.R. Cong. Rep. No. 109-72, at 2873 (May 3, 2005). Courts that have considered this issue have reached the same conclusion. See Sissoko v. Rocha, 412 F.3d 1021, 1033 (9th Cir.2005); Ahmad v. Chertoff, 2005 WL 1799752, at *1-*2 (W.D.Wash. July 27, 2005); Kanteh v. Ridge, 2005 WL 1719217, at *1, *3 (D.Minn. June 30, 2005), report and recommendation adopted, 2005 WL 1705526 (D.Minn. July 19, 2005); Cretu v. Chertoff, 2005 WL 1630541, at *1 (W.D.La. June 29, 2005); Garcia-Perez v. United States Dep't of Homeland Sec., 2005 WL 1398100, at *1 (W.D.Tex. June 13, 2005); Morena v. Gonzáles, 2005 WL 1367414, at *2 & n.2 (M.D.Pa. June 6, 2005).
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