Liborio Ramos v. Sessions ( 2024 )

1 ETAN NEWMAN (SBN 308728) PANGEA LEGAL SERVICES 2 391 SUTTER ST., SUITE 500 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108 3 TEL. (415) 652-0907 4 FAX. (415) 593-5335 etan@pangealegal.org 5 Pro Bono Counsel for Petitioner 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 9 10 FLORICEL LIBORIO RAMOS, No. 4:18-cv-00413-JST 11 Petitioner, JOINT MOTION TO DISMISS 12 WITHOUT PREJUDICE PURSUANT vs. TO FEDERAL RULE OF CIVIL 13 PROCEDURE 41(a)(2) AND 14 MERRICK B. GARLAND, U.S. Attorney [PROPOSED] ORDER General, et al., 15 Detention Status: Non-Detained Respondents (Official Capacities). 16 17 18 1. Petitioner Floricel Liborio Ramos (“Ms. Liborio Ramos”) and Federal 19 Respondents jointly move to dismiss this petition for habeas corpus without prejudice 20 pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(2). 21 2. The Court granted the habeas petition, in part, on February 15, 2018. Dkt. No. 22 19.On March 13, 2018, the court granted Petitioner’s Motion to Enforce Judgment. Dkt. 23 No. 28. 24 3. Federal Respondents appealed to the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit granted 25 Federal Respondents’ unopposed motion to hold the appeal in abeyance pending parallel 26 litigation involving the statutory right to a bond hearing for individuals detained under 8 27 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(6). Ultimately, after the Supreme Court’s intervening decision in Johnson 28 1 2 v.Arteaga-Martinez, 596 U.S. 573 (2022), Federal Respondents filed an unopposed motion 3 with the Ninth Circuit to vacate the Court’s orders and remand. 4 4. The Ninth Circuit granted the motion on March 1, 2024, vacated this Court’s 5 orders dated February 15, 2018 and March 13, 2018, and remanded for further proceedings. 6 The mandate issued on April 23, 2024. 7 5. Petitioner and Federal Respondents now request that the Court enter an order 8 dismissing this action without prejudice. 9 6. As a condition of Petitioner’s agreement to dismiss this action, Immigration and 10 Customs Enforcement has agreed not to re-arrest or re-detain Ms. Liborio Ramos unless 11 there is a change in circumstances, i.e., a new criminal arrest/conviction and/or final and 12 executable administrative removal order. 13 7. Further, the parties have agreed that each party will bear its own costs and fees 14 15 in this litigation, and Petitioner will not seek attorneys’ fees pursuant to the Equal Access to 16 Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412, or any other provision of law. 17 8. In light of the foregoing, the parties request the Court dismiss this petition 18 without prejudice. Dated: May 13, 2024 Respectfully submitted, 19 20 By: /s/ Etan Newman 21 ETAN NEWMAN Pangea Legal Services 22 391 Sutter Street Suite 500 23 San Francisco, CA 94108 Tel.: 415-652-0907 24 Email: etan@pangealegal.org 25 Counsel for Petitioner 26 27 28 Liborio Ramos v. Garland, et al., 4:18-cv-00413-JST 1 2 BRIAN M. BOYNTON Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney 3 General 4 WILLIAM C. PEACHEY 5 Director 6 JESSICA W. D’ARRIGO Senior Litigation Counsel 7 8 By: /s/ Nicole P. Grant NICOLE P. GRANT 9 Senior Litigation Counsel U.S. Department of Justice 10 Civil Division 11 Office of Immigration Litigation District Court Section 12 P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044 13 Tel.: (202) 598-2371 14 Email: nicole.p.grant@usdoj.gov 15 Counsel for Respondents 16 17 18 19 ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO CIVIL L.R. 5.1(i)(3) 20 As the filer of this document, I attest that concurrence in the filing was obtained from the other 21 signatory. Executed on this 13th day of May, 2024, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 22 /s/ Etan Newman Pro Bono Attorney for Petitioner 23 24 25 26 27 28 Liborio Ramos v. Garland, et al., 4:18-cv-00413-JST 1 2 3 4 [PROPOSED] ORDER 5 6 Having considered Petitioner and Federal Respondents’ joint motion to dismiss, this 7 action is dismissed without prejudice. 8 SO ORDERED. 9 10 11 Dated: May 15, 2024 _____________________________ JON S. TIGAR 12 United States District Judge 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Liborio Ramos v. Garland, et al., 4:18-cv-00413-JST