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· 10/21/1992

United States v. David Seeright

Citations

  • 978 F.2d 842
  • 978 F.3d 842
  • 36 Fed. R. Serv. 1399
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 26915
  • 1992 WL 296844

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that § 1226(e) does not “limit habeas jurisdiction over constitutional claims or questions of law” (quotation marks omitted)
  • holding that as the “period of [the noncitizen’s] confinement grows, so do the required procedural protections no matter what level of due process may have been sufficient at the moment of initial detention.”
  • noting that the government’s interest in “ensuring [that detained noncitizens] do not commit crimes” is “well-established and not disputed”
  • holding that the government bore the burden to prove petitioner in prolonged mandatory detention under § 1226(c) is either a flight risk or a danger to the community because Velasco-Lopez “interchangeably cites cases where the alien is held under § 1226(a) and § 1226(c
  • detailing that the government often has access to “numerous databases[,] . . . to information collected by DHS, DOJ, and the FBI, [and to] information in the hands of state and local authorities”
  • detailing that the government often has access to “numerous databases[,] . . . to information collected by DHS, DOJ, and the FBI, [and to] information in the hands of state and local authorities”

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Judges: Wilkinson, Niemeyer, Stamp, Northern, Virginia

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