Court Opinion

ID: 9398083
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-30 14:01:11.198983+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:30.874379
License: Public Domain

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                              FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 VLADIMIR GRISHAU,
           Plaintiff,

                                                             Civil Action No. 22-3695 (JDB)
                   v.

 ALEJANDRO N. MAYORKAS ET AL.,
           Defendants.

                                             ORDER

          On December 9, 2022, plaintiff filed a petition for a writ of mandamus. Pet. for Writ of

Mandamus & Declaratory J. [ECF No. 1]. Defendants filed a motion to dismiss on March 20,

2023. Defs.’ Mot. to Dismiss [ECF No. 9]. Under the local rules, plaintiff had 14 days to respond

to the motion. See D.C. Local Civ. R. 7(b). When an opposition “is not filed within the prescribed

time, the Court may treat the motion as conceded.” Id. Long after that 14-day deadline had passed,

the Court offered plaintiff one last chance to “file any opposition to the motion to dismiss by not

later than May 24, 2023, or the Court will grant the motion as unopposed.” May 10, 2023 Min.

Order. Plaintiff did not file any opposition by that date.

          For these reasons, it is hereby

          ORDERED that [9] defendants’ motion to dismiss is GRANTED as unopposed; it is

further

          ORDERED that [1] plaintiff’s petition for a writ of mandamus and a declaratory judgment

is dismissed.

          SO ORDERED.

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                                     /s/
                              JOHN D. BATES
                          United States District Judge
Dated: May 30, 2023

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