Legal Opinion
Prieto-Romero v. Clark
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 25, 2008No. 07-35458PublishedCited by 497 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from the district court’s denial of Jose Manuel Prieto-Romero’s habe-as corpus petition concerns whether the government may continue to detain a legal permanent resident of the United States for over three years while he seeks administrative and judicial review of his removal order. We hold that this continued civil detention, although lengthy, is authorized by statute, and so we affirm the district court.
The facts of this case are straightforward and not disputed by either party. Prieto-Romero, a native and citizen of Mexico, has been a legal permanent…
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