Court
W.D. La.
Decided
October 7, 2026
Docket
3:26-cv-03783-JE-KDM (ECF No. 21)
Judge
Jerry Edwards, Jr., District Judge.
Outcome
Interim relief granted
Disposition
Motion for a temporary restraining order granted. Respondents temporarily enjoined from removing the petitioner for fourteen days, and ordered to respond to the motion on or before 15 October 2026.
Nationality
Cameroon, according to the memorandum and order of the District of Kansas of 23 September 2026, which this docket carries as ECF No. 4. The petitioner alleged that an immigration judge granted him deferral of removal to Cameroon on 14 January 2025.
Third country
None named in the order. The memorandum and order of the District of Kansas in the same case records the petitioner’s allegation that officials told him the government planned to remove him to Burundi on 24 September 2026.
The case reached the Western District of Louisiana from the District of Kansas, which had found that it lacked jurisdiction because the petitioner was no longer detained in Kansas when he filed. This docket carries the Kansas orders as ECF Nos. 4 and 8.
Having considered the petitioner’s motion for a temporary restraining order, the court granted it: “IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Respondents are temporarily enjoined from removing Petitioner for fourteen (14) days.” It ordered the respondents to file a response to the motion on or before 15 October 2026. The one-page order gives no reasons.
Caution
A temporary order of fourteen days, given without reasons. It does not name the third country, decide jurisdiction or address the merits. No later order of this court was read, and the documents obtained do not show whether the order was extended.
The memorandum and order of the District of Kansas of 23 September 2026 in the same case, denying a temporary restraining order under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(g), is recorded separately in this register.
Third-country removal
Temporary restraining order
CAT deferral
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Public copy
Read from the public federal court record.
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