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Nature of Suit Code: 465
Nature of Suit: Other Immigration Actions
Cause of Action: 08:1252(a)(2) Injunction for Deportation

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TONY WEST

Assistant Attorney General

DAVID KLINE

Director, District Court Section

Office of Immigration Litigation

COLIN A. KISOR

Senior Litigation Counsel

LANA L. VAHAB,

Trial Attorney

Office of Immigration Litigation

U.S. Department of Justice - Civil Division

P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station

Washington, D.C. 20044-0868

Email: lana.vahab@usdoj.gov

Telephone: (202) 532-4067; FAX: (202) 305-7000

Attorneys for Respondent

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

Bartolo Giovanni Vivenzi-De La Cruz,

a.k.a. Bartolo Giovanni Vivenzi

Petitioner/Plaintiff,

v.

Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the

United States

Respondent/Defendant.

CIV-3:10-CV-01327-CRB

JOINT STIPULATION TO THE COURT1

 

On March 29, 2010, this Court issued a Procedural Order for Immigration Mandamus

Cases, classifying the case as falling under Northern District of California General Order No.

1

 Petitioner Bartolo Vivenzi-De La Cruz is proceeding pro se in this action. The

undersigned counsel reached Mr. Vivenzi-De La Cruz on the phone on Sunday May 9, 2010, and

discussed with Mr. Vivenzi-De La Cruz the mis-classification of this case under General Order

61. Mr. Vivenzi-De La Cruz said that he understood and agreed to the filing of the stipulation. 

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61 (Mandamus Cases).2 (Dkt 21.) This case, however, was transferred from the Ninth Circuit

Court of Appeals to the district court level under the authority of 8 U.S.C. §

1252(b)(5).3

 Section 1252(b)(5) is not a statute that allows for mandamus relief and therefore

this case appears to be mis-classified.4

 

Section 1252(b)(5)(B) provides that where a petitioner claims to be a national of the

United States in a petition for review, a court of appeals may transfer the proceedings to the

district court if the court of appeals find that there exists a “genuine issue of material fact

about the petitioner’s nationality.” 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(5)(B).

As such, Respondent requests that this Court reclassify the case and issue a new

procedural and/or scheduling order. 

DATED this 19th day of May, 2010.

Respectfully submitted,

TONY WEST

Assistant Attorney General

DAVID J. KLINE

Director, Office of Immigration Litigation

District Court Section

COLIN A. KISOR

Senior Litigation Counsel

/s/ Lana L. Vahab 

LANA L. VAHAB

2

 On March 29, 2010, the case was still assigned to Magistrate Judge Zimmerman, but

on May 11, 2010 the case was reassigned to District Court Judge Breyer.

3

 The Ninth Circuit initially transferred the case to the District of Arizona, but on

Petitioner’s motion, the District Court of Arizona transferred the case to the Northern District

of California where Petitioner resides. (Dkt 16, 19.)

4

 In fact, the statute provides for declaratory judgment not mandamus relief. It states that

the district court to which the matter is transferred hold a “new hearing on the nationality claim”

and issue a decision on that claim “as if an action had been brought in the district court under

section 2201 of Title 28. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(5)(B). Section 2201, in turn states that “. . .any

court of the United States . . . may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested

party seeking such declaration . . . Any such declaration shall have the force and effect of a final

judgment or decree and shall be reviewable as such.” See 28 U.S.C. § 2201(a)

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Trial Attorney

District Court Section

Office of Immigration Litigation

U.S. Department of Justice - Civil Division

P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station

Washington, D.C. 20044-0868

Email: lana.vahab@usdoj.gov

Telephone: (202) 532-4067

FAX: (202) 305-7000

Attorneys for Defendant

Signed: May 24, 2010

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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A

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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