Ramirez Lopez v. Trump

Background

Candida Ramirez Lopez filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order, or TRO, identified as ECF No. 8. The order also refers to a petition but does not describe its claims or the relief sought in detail.

Court’s Order

The court ordered counsel for all parties to appear for a conference on June 11, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. in Courtroom 14C of the United States Courthouse in New York, New York, to discuss the emergency TRO request.

To preserve its jurisdiction—the court’s authority to decide the case—the court ordered that Candida Ramirez Lopez not be removed from the United States unless and until the court orders otherwise. The order relied on the federal law commonly called the All Writs Act, which permits a federal court to take steps needed to protect its ability to decide a case.

The court also ordered counsel to register promptly as electronic-filing users and familiarize themselves with Judge Vargas’s individual rules. Unless the court gives permission through a letter-motion filed before the conference, pretrial conferences must be attended by the attorney who will serve as principal trial counsel. Lawyers who had already appeared were directed to send the order and the court’s rules to counsel for parties who had not appeared, or to those parties personally if their lawyers were unknown, and to file proof that they had done so.

Disposition and Significance

This order scheduled a conference and temporarily restricted removal to preserve the court’s jurisdiction. It did not state that the court granted or denied the TRO, and it did not decide the petition’s underlying legal questions. Judge Jeannette A. Vargas signed the order on June 10, 2025.