Mendonca v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• finding alien under removal order was in custody, but declining to exercise jurisdiction because petition challenged discretionary decision
• granting motion to dismiss because, among other things, naturalization applicant “would be ineligible for naturalization . . . because he is subject to a final deportation order”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).