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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

Farid Morceli,

Petitioner,

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Katrina Kane,

Respondent. 

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No. CV 11-1225-PHX-GMS

ORDER

Pending before the Court is Petitioner’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Doc. 1). Petitioner argues that he is entitled to be released

from custody pending his deportation. On February 14, 2012, Respondent filed a Notice re

Suggestion of Mootness (Doc. 12). Pursuant to the government’s Order of Supervision

attached to the Notice (Doc. 12-1), Petitioner was released from immigration detention on

September 13, 2011. On February 28, 2012, the magistrate judge issued a Report and

Recommendation. (Doc. 13.)

This Court lacks jurisdiction to review moot issues. Gator.com Corp. v. L.L. Bean,

Inc., 398 F.3d 1125, 1128 (9th Cir. 2005) (“It is an inexorable command of the United States

Constitution that the federal courts confine themselves to deciding actual cases and

controversies.”). The test for mootness is whether the court can give a party any effective

relief in the event that it decides the matter on the merits in its favor; “[t]hat is, whether the

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court can ‘undo’ the effects of the alleged wrongdoing.” Reimers v. Oregon, 863 F.2d 630,

632 (9th Cir. 1989).

Here, the pending Petition seeks his release from custody pending deportation. In

view of Petitioner’s release from custody, the relief he requests can no longer be effected by

this Court. Therefore, no “case or controversy” under Article III of the United States

Constitution remains, and the petition is moot. Picrin-Peron v. Rison, 930 F.2d 773, 776 (9th

Cir. 1991) (finding that because the petitioner only requested a release from custody and had

been released the court could provide no further relief and the petition was properly

dismissed). This case must therefore be dismissed.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc..

1) is DENIED AS MOOT.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (Doc. 13) is

likewise MOOT and ordered terminated.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court shall TERMINATE this

action.

DATED this 5th day of March, 2012.

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