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D. Minn.Procedural orderFiled Feb. 2, 2021

Somdy L. v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Judge
Wilhelmina Wright
Docket
0:20-cv-01962
Court
U.S. District Court · District of Minnesota
Pages
1
HabeasCivil Procedure
In one sentence

In Somdy L. v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Judge Wright denied the petition as moot and dismissed the action without prejudice.

Who this affects

Somdy L. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement

What happened

Somdy L. v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement concerned Somdy L.’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The court considered a magistrate judge’s recommendation that the petition be denied as moot.

No objections were filed to the report and recommendation. The court therefore reviewed it for clear error and found none.

Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright adopted the recommendation, denied the petition as moot, dismissed the action without prejudice, and directed that judgment be entered.

The detailed version

For law students, journalists, and other readers who want the full reasoning

Case
Somdy L. v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · No. 0:20-cv-01962
Judge
Wilhelmina Wright
Date
Feb. 2, 2021

Background

Somdy L. filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The opinion does not explain the petition’s underlying allegations or why the petition had become moot.

Report and Recommendation

On October 21, 2020, United States Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz issued a report and recommendation recommending that the petition be denied as moot. No objections were filed. Because there were no timely objections, the district court reviewed the recommendation for clear error, meaning an obvious mistake in the recommendation.

Ruling

The court found no clear error and adopted the report and recommendation. Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright ordered that Somdy L.’s petition be denied as moot, that the action be dismissed without prejudice, and that judgment be entered.

Classification

This is a procedural order because the petition was resolved as moot without a decision on the underlying habeas question.

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