Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Holtby

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• granting summary judgment in applicant’s favor; “Now, with Islam’s petition pending just shy of six years, and with no indication from defendants of when or whether he can expect any decision in the future, the day prophesied in Islam I has arrived.”
• “[T]he government has a non-discretionary duty to adjudicate such a petition ‘within a reasonable period of time.’”

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