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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

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALEXEY GENNADYEVICH KHARIS,

Plaintiff,

v.

JEFFERSON B SESSIONS, III, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 18-cv-04800-JST 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE AND 

RESPOND TO ADMINISTRATIVE 

MOTION TO SEAL

Re: ECF Nos. 1, 3

A federal district court is authorized to grant a writ of habeas corpus when a petitioner is 

“in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.” 28 U.S.C. 

§ 2241(c)(3).

Petitioner Alexey Kharis, who is in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security, 

has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. See ECF No. 1. He 

alleges that he has been in custody since August 16, 2017, and is currently detained at the Contra 

Costa West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California. Petitioner alleges that procedural 

defects in his bond proceedings pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) deprived him of his Fifth 

Amendment right to due process.

He names four individuals as Respondents: U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Sessions; 

Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen; Field Office Director of 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for San Francisco David Jennings; and Contra Costa 

County Sheriff David Livingston. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 14–17.

Petitioner also moves to file under seal portions of the exhibits to his habeas petition. See 

ECF No. 3.

Having considered the pleadings and documents in this matter, and good cause having 

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been shown by Petitioner, the Court orders Respondents to Show Cause:

1. By September 13, 2018, Respondents shall respond by answering the allegations 

and showing cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not issue, or by filing a motion to dismiss 

on procedural grounds. Respondents shall also file any opposition to Petitioner’s administrative 

motion to file under seal, ECF No. 3, by September 13, 2018.

2. Petitioner’s traverse, opposition, or statement of non-opposition shall be filed by 

October 4, 2018. Petitioner shall also file any reply in support of Petitioner’s administrative 

motion to file under seal by October 4, 2018.

3. The Court will hold a hearing on the order to show cause on October 29, 2018, at 

1:00 p.m.

The Clerk of the Court shall serve a copy of this Order, the petition, the administrative 

motion to file under seal, and all attachments thereto, on Respondents and shall serve copies of 

these documents to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 16, 2018

______________________________________

JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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