Case Name: Juan MACHUCA-TELLEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-07-19
Citations: 388 F. App'x 609
Docket Number: No. 06-71620
Parties: Juan MACHUCA-TELLEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: TALLMAN and BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and BURGESS, United States District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 388
Pages: 609–610

Head Matter:
Juan MACHUCA-TELLEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 06-71620.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted July 15, 2010.
Filed July 19, 2010.
Esperanza V. Bada, Esq., La Puente, CA, for Petitioner.
Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, Cynthia M. Parsons, Assistant U.S., USPX-Office of the U.S. Attorney, Phoenix, AZ, for Respondent.
Before: TALLMAN and BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and BURGESS, United States District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Timothy M. Burgess, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Petitioner Juan Machuca-Tellez requests that we treat his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, originally filed in the district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and subsequently transferred here on motion of the Attorney General, as a petition for review. We cannot construe the underlying petition as a petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals's 2000 order of removal because it was filed after the effective date of the REAL ID Act of 2005. See Iasu v. Smith, 511 F.3d 881, 888-89 (9th Cir.2007) (finding it "improper to allow a habeas petition that was not pending on or before May 11, 2005, to be treated as a petition for review"). The Attorney General concedes that it erroneously obtained the transfer order because it now realizes Petitioner's habeas corpus petition was not pending at the time the REAL ID Act went into effect. See id. at 888 (stating that the petitioner could not use the "statutory replacement" of direct review of a transferred habeas petition because no habeas petition was pending on the REAL ID Act's effective date).
To the extent that the § 2241 petition challenged the conditions of Machuca-Tel-lez's detention in 2005, it is dismissed as moot because he was removed to Mexico on or about January 23, 2006.
DISMISSED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.