Vasquez v. Reno

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that a petitioner must name one custodian, and may not “choose from among an array of colorable custodians”
• suggesting that a petitioner must name one custodian, and may not \choose from among an array of colorable custodians\
• holding that alien “contesting the legality of his detention by the INS normally must name as the respondent his immediate custodian, that is, the individual having day-to-day control over the facility in which he is being detained”
• suggesting that a petitioner corpus purposes. must name one custodian, and may not “choose from among an array of colorable custodians”
• observing that court issuing the writ “must have personal jurisdiction over the person who holds the petitioner in custody”
• observing that “the case law concerning the identity of the proper respondent to habeas petitions brought by detained aliens is much more sparse and far less coherent” than the case law about the proper respondent to prisoner habeas corpus petitions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).