Court Opinion

ID: 9394544
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-15 19:00:44.938959+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:00.922475
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                             FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

  SHIRNAWAZ ZAKIMI,

         Plaintiff,
                                                             Case No. 1:22-cv-2048-RCL
  v.

  ANTONY J. BLINKEN, et al.,

         Defendants.

                                              ORDER

        Plaintiff filed a complaint for writ of mandamus and injunctive relief alleging that

defendants failed to process and adjudicate plaintiffs Special Immigrant Visa application within

a reasonable period of time. Compl. � 1, ECF No. 1. After the case was transferred to this Court,

defendants moved to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and failure to state a claim.

Defs.' Mot. Dismiss, ECF No. 13. That motion was filed in October of 2022 and plaintiff has

neither responded nor filed a motion requesting an extension of time to respond.

        Local Civil Rule 7(b) provides that "Within 14 days of the date of service . .. an opposing

party shall serve and file a memorandum of points and authorities in opposition to the motion."

The Rule further states that, when a party fails to file a memorandum "within the prescribed time,

the Court may treat the motion as conceded." That is, it "is well settled that a plaintiffs failure to

respond to a motion to dismiss permits a court to grant the motion as conceded." Bakhaje v.

Blinken, No. 1 :22-cv-642-RCL, 2022 WL 9943852, at * 1 (D.D.C. Oct. 17, 2022) (quoting

Hoffman v. D.C., 681 F. Supp. 2d 86, 94 (D.D.C. 2010)). Therefore, because "[i]t has now been

several months, and plaintiffl] ha[s] not opposed the motion to dismiss, nor filed a request to extend

the time to file such an opposition" this Court will treat the portion of defendants' motion
requesting that this Court dismiss for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction as conceded and will

accordingly dismiss this case on that basis.

       It is hereby ORDERED that defendants' motion to dismiss is GRANTED and this case is

DISMISSED w,THOUT PREJUDICE for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.

       The clerk is ORDERED to terminate this case.

       IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: May� 2023
                                                          Royce C. Lamberth
                                                          United States District Judge