SDNY COURTHOUSE, May 1 – A man from
Mexico was detained by ICE on April 21 and on April 22 at
12:14 pm a Walker Street-based lawyer filed a habeas
corpus petition in his name in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of New York, where Inner City Press found it. It was
Estrada Santos v. Genalo, et al., 1:26-cv-3313.
At 12:25 pm, the case was assigned to District
Judge John P. Cronan. Notable, Judge Cronan
recently denied the habeas petition of a New York City
Council staff member from Venezuela, as covered in the
Press.
At 12:35 pm the
Walker Street-based lawyer filed a "Notice of Voluntary
Dismissal," withdrawing the petition.
At 12:39 pm - four
minutes later - the same lawyer filed a second habeas
corpus petition for the same client.
This case was Estrada Santos v. Genalo, et al., 1:26-cv-3316 (Unassigned)
Until, after
Inner City
Press
published the
above, the
case was
deemed related
and assigned
to Judge
Cronan, who
has asked for a letter
by May 4 why
sanctions
should not
issue (as, he
noted,
is being
consider in an
11th Circuit
case from
Alabama).
On May
1, an explanation
was offered.
After waiting
for legal fees
to be hand
delivered,
counsel
realized "the
alleged US citizenship
of Petitioner's
children
was incorrect"
- so, he says,
he dismissed
and
refiled. But
the second one
said the same
thing about
the children.
This one was
not dismissed,
but amended -
as the first
one could have
been. We'll
see what Judge
Cronan says.
This may be a pattern.
Back on April 10 one man named Linzhong
Huang was detained by ICE on April 10 in 26 Federal Plaza.
Two law firms filed habeas corpus petitions
later than day in SDNY, where Inner City Press found
both.
At 2:32 pm on April 10, the Law Office of
Ng & Wasserman of 27 East Broadway filed a habeas
petition, Linzhong Hwang v. Almodovar, et al., which got
assigned to Judge Katherine Polk Failla.
At 3:39 pm, the Law Office of Ling Li, PC
of Main Street, [Flushing], Queens filed a habeas
petition, Linzhong Huang v. Genalo, et al., which got
assigned to Judge Vernon S. Broderick, who ordered "the
Petitioner shall not be removed from US unless and until
the Court orders otherwise."
It seems this is the same man. Did both
firms speak with Linzhong Huang? Did either?
The cases are Linzhong Hwang v.
Almodovar, et al., 1:26-cv-2972 (Failla) and Linzhong
Hwang v. Genalo, et al., 1:26-cv-2975 (Broderick)
On April 22, this second-filed petition was
granted, with petitioner to be released by April 23 at 5
pm.
