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Nadarajah v. Gonzales

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Abrogated
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
443 F.3d 1069
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
30 of 30
Citing cases (total)
30
Treatment dates
2018
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Nadarajah v. Gonzales is abrogated as to its reading of the immigration detention statute. All 30 flagged citations have been read.
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The Supreme Court's decision in Jennings v. Rodriguez displaced Nadarajah's conclusion that § 1225(b) itself limits detention during ongoing proceedings. Zelaya-Gonzalez v. Matuszewski later described Nadarajah as abrogated on other grounds by Jennings while still citing its separate holding on habeas jurisdiction.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

30 later cases cite Nadarajah v. Gonzales; 30 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court held that § 1225(b) does not impose a time limit on detention before the specified immigration proceedings end, displacing Nadarajah's contrary statutory construction.

    Jennings v. Rodriguez · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Once those proceedings end, detention under §1225(b) must end as well. Until that point, however, nothing in the statutory text imposes any limit on the length of detention.
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