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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2241 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PEDRO DOMINGUEZ LIZANO, )

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Petitioner, )

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MICHAEL CHERTOFF, et al., )

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Respondents. )

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1:05-CV-1465 OWW LJO HC

ORDER GRANTING PETITIONER’S

MOTION TO TRANSFER ACTION

AND TRANSFERRING ACTION TO NINTH

CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS 

Petitioner is detained at Taft Correctional Institution and is proceeding pro se with a petition

for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The matter was referred to a United States

Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 72-302. 

On November 18, 2005, Petitioner filed the instant petition for writ of habeas corpus. On 

November 29, 2005, he then filed a motion to transfer the action to the Ninth Circuit Court of

Appeals.

DISCUSSION

On May 11, 2005, the President signed into law the “Emergency Supplemental

Appropriations Act for Defense, The Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005.” Division B

of the Act is titled “REAL ID Act of 2005.” Section 106 of the Act amended Section 242 of the

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Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1252) so as to render a petition for review to the courts

of appeal the sole and exclusive means of review of an administrative order of removal, deporation,

or exclusion. Section 106(c) provides:

If an alien's case, brought under section 2241 of title 28, United States Code, and

challenging a final administrative order of removal, deportation, or exclusion, is pending in a

district court on the date of the enactment of this division, then the district court shall transfer

the case (or the part of the case that challenges the order of removal, deportation, or

exclusion) to the court of appeals for the circuit in which a petition for review could have

been properly filed under section 242(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.

1252), as amended by this section, or under section 309(c)(4)(D) of the Illegal Immigration

Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1101 note). 

In this case, Petitioner challenges the Immigration Judge’s order of deportation, and this case

was filed after the Act went into effect. Therefore, the statute requires that this Court transfer the

matter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

ORDER

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Petitioner’s motion to transfer the action is

GRANTED and the petition for writ of habeas corpus is TRANSFERRED to the Ninth Circuit Court

of Appeals as a petition for review. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 19, 2005 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger 

emm0d6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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