Legal Opinion

Mai Tahoun v. Department of State

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided May 13, 2025No. Civil Action No. 2021-1658Published

1Opinion of the Court

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MAI TAHOUN et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 21-1658 (TJK) DEPARTMENT OF STATE et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiffs are diversity-visa lottery winners awarded the opportunity to apply for immigrant visas in Fiscal Year 2021. But none of them received a visa by June 2021, so they sued. A few months later, Defendants moved to dismiss, arguing that the Court lacked subject-matter jurisdic- tion over the case. The Court stayed the case pending the D.C. Circuit’s decision in Goodluck v. Biden,

104 F.4th 920

(D.C. Cir.…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Federal Deposit Insurance v. MeyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  3. DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. CunoSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
  4. Lane v. PenaSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  5. Bowen v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1988

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