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Nature of Suit Code: 463
Nature of Suit: Habeas Corpus - Alien Detainee
Cause of Action: 28:2241 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Federal)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Ali Jahad Al-Timimi Sabhan,

Petitioner, 

vs.

Katrina S. Kane, 

Respondent. 

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CIV-10-2766-PHX-GMS (MHB)

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION

TO THE HONORABLE G. MURRAY SNOW, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE:

Petitioner Ali Jahad Al-Timimi Sabhan (A071-700-184) has filed a pro se Petition for

Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 alleging that immigration officials are

holding him in detention pending his removal from the United States. Petitioner argues that

he is entitled to release from custody because his detention with no prospect that his removal

will be effected in the reasonably foreseeable future is not authorized by law. See Zadvydas

v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678 (2001) (when there is no reasonable likelihood that a foreign

government will accept an alien’s return in the reasonably foreseeable future, the INS may

not detain the alien for more than the presumptively reasonable period of six months).

On March 24, 2011, Respondent filed a Notice to the Court and Suggestion of

Mootness (Doc. 14) indicating that Petitioner was released from custody and placed under

an Order of Supervision on January 14, 2011. “[A] petitioner’s release from detention under

an order of supervision ‘moots his challenge to the legality of his extended detention.’”

Abdala v. INS, 488 F.3d 1061, 1064 (9th Cir. 2007) (quoting Riley v. INS, 310 F.3d 1253,

1256-57 (10th Cir. 2002)). Accordingly, on April 15, 2011, the Court ordered Petitioner to

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show cause why his Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241

should not be dismissed as moot in light of his release from custody. (Doc. 17.) To date,

Petitioner has not responded or otherwise communicated with the Court, and the time for

filing a response to the Court’s Order has expired.

It appearing that the relief requested in Petitioner’s habeas petition has been granted,

and that the habeas petition is now moot and should, therefore, be dismissed, the Court will

recommend that Petitioner’s Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus be dismissed.

IT IS THEREFORE RECOMMENDED that Petitioner’s Petition for a Writ of

Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Doc. 1) be DISMISSED as moot and without

prejudice.

This recommendation is not an order that is immediately appealable to the Ninth

Circuit Court of Appeals. Any notice of appeal pursuant to Rule 4(a)(1), Federal Rules of

Appellate Procedure, should not be filed until entry of the district court’s judgment. The

parties shall have fourteen days from the date of service of a copy of this recommendation

within which to file specific written objections with the Court. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1);

Rules 72, 6(a), 6(b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Thereafter, the parties have fourteen

days within which to file a response to the objections. Failure timely to file objections to the

Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation may result in the acceptance of the Report

and Recommendation by the district court without further review. See United States v.

Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003). Failure timely to file objections to any

factual determinations of the Magistrate Judge will be considered a waiver of a party’s right

to appellate review of the findings of fact in an order or judgment entered pursuant to the

Magistrate Judge’s recommendation. See Rule 72, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

DATED this 27th day of April, 2011.

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