Opinion ID: 2960205
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: B(iii) Exhaustion

Text: 14 Relatedly, there is “no other adequate remedy in a court” for Sharkey’s claims. See 5 U.S.C. § 704 (limiting review to “final agency action for which there is no other adequate remedy in a court”). The Supreme Court narrowly construed this limitation to apply only in instances when there are “special and adequate review procedures” that permit an adequate substitute remedy. See Bowen v. Massachusetts, 487 U.S. 879, 903 (1988). Although Sharkey, if ordered removed under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1), could raise her putative LPR status in a habeas petition, see 8 U.S.C. § 1252(e)(2), Sharkey has not been ordered removed and, further, the only remedy available in such a proceeding would be an order requiring a different type of removal hearing, see 8 U.S.C. § 1252(e)(4)(B). Thus, Section 1252(e) is plainly not a “special and adequate review procedure” sufficient to oust a court of its normal jurisdiction under the APA. See Bowen, 487 U.S. at 904-07. 21 Finally, under the APA, “[c]ourts are not free to impose an exhaustion requirement unless the specific statutory scheme at issue imposes such a requirement.” Air Espana, 165 F.3d at 151 (internal quotation marks omitted); see Darby, 509 U.S. at 154 (holding that under the APA, the doctrine of exhaustion applies “only when expressly required by statute or when an agency rule requires appeal before [judicial] review and the administrative action is made inoperative pending that review”). The Director has not pointed to any statute or regulation that expressly mandates exhaustion of her claims.