Legal Opinion
Vasquez v. Reno
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 8, 2000No. 00-1505PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
We are called upon to decide an important question of first impression at the appellate level: Is the Attorney General of the United States the custodian of an alien being held at a federal detention facility (and therefore a proper respondent to that alien’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus)? We conclude that, as a general rule, the Attorney General is neither the custodian of such an alien in the requisite sense nor the proper respondent to a habeas petition. Since this case falls squarely within that general rule, we vacate the district court’s merits-based…
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