Legal Opinion
Liban Ahmed Abdala v. Immigration and Naturalization Service Adele J. Fasano, Dist. Director, Ins District Director for the San Diego District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 4, 2007No. 06-55774PublishedCited by 269 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYBEE, Circuit Judge.
Liban Abdala (“Abdala”) was ordered removed from the United States to Somalia as a result of his criminal convictions. While in Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) custody, Abdala filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in which he challenged the length of his pre-deportation detainment. Shortly after filing that petition, Abdala was deported. We hold that because Abdala’s habeas claims challenged only the length of his detention, as distinguished from the lawfulness of the deportation order, his grievance could no longer be remedied…
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