Legal Opinion

Rodney v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

District Court, D. Connecticut

Decided November 20, 2006No. Civil 3:05CV479 (PCD)PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RULING ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

DORSEY, District Judge.

This case involves a petition for a writ of mandamus to be issued to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) 1 ordering them to deport Petitioner, Wesley Rodney, 2 to his native country of Guyana. For the reasons that follow, the Petition for Writ of Mandamus [Doc. No. 3] is dismissed.

I. BACKGROUND

Petitioner is a citizen and native of Guyana. (See INS Order to Show Cause, Ex. A to Resp’t Resp. to Order to Show Cause.) Petitioner entered the United States at or near New York, New York on or about December…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Rumsfeld v. PadillaSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  2. Ex Parte EndoSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
  3. Mark Brittingham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1992
  4. Anthony Simmonds, A/K/A Anthony Simmons v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
  5. Steven Guerra v. Edwin Meese, IIICourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1986

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