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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:1361 Petition for Writ of Mandamus

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1 Also on April 5, 2006, petitioner filed a petition for writ of mandamus, 06-CV- 798. Petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 with the Ninth

Circuit Court of Appeals. On April 18, 2006, the Court of Appeals transferred the case to the

district court noting that it lacked jurisdiction to consider a petition for writ of habeas corpus

under § 2241 as an original matter. The transferred case was given the case number 06-CV-910. 

Under the Court’s Civil Local Rules, all cases were low numbered to the undersigned. The

Court then, sua sponte, consolidates the actions under case number 06-CV-794-L(POR). 

06cv794

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HAI CI FU,

Petitioner,

v.

TOM RIDGE, et al.,

Respondents.

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Civil No. 06-CV-794-L(POR)

ORDER DISMISSING PETITION

FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

WITHOUT PREJUDICE AS MOOT 

On April 5, 2006, petitioner Hai Ci Fu filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28

U.S.C. § 2241 in case number 06-CV-7941

 seeking release from Department of Homeland

Security custody. Petitioner, a citizen of China is under an order of removal based upon prior

criminal convictions. Petitioner contends he cannot be removed to his country of origin in the

reasonably foreseeable future. Petitioner argues his continued detention beyond the statutory

removal period is not lawful on the basis that there is no reasonable likelihood that he can be

repatriated to his native China.

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On October 19, 2006, after the petition was fully briefed, the government filed an updated

return which stated that “on or about October 12, 2006, petitioner was released from custody.” 

(Updated Return at 1). The government provided a Release Notification dated October 11, 2006

in support of its statement that petitioner has been released. (Exh. 1, Updated Return). Because

petitioner has obtained the relief he sought in his petition for writ of habeas corpus, the petition

is now moot.

Based on the foregoing, IT IS ORDERED dismissing the above-captioned petition

without prejudice as moot. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED directing the Clerk of the Court to

close this case.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: October 24, 2006

M. James Lorenz

United States District Court Judge

COPY TO:

HON. LOUISA S. PORTER

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

ALL PARTIES/COUNSEL

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