Middle District of Pennsylvania • 3:26-cv-01814

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Jun 30, 2026

PETITION for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Filing fee $5, Receipt Number 7475299), filed by Carlos Eugenio Coxaj-Garcia. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Exhibit List, # 3 Exhibit A - ICE Detainee Locator) (ea) (Entered: 06/30/2026)

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Aug 21, 2026

MEMORANDUM (Order to follow as separate docket entry) re 1 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed by Carlos Eugenio Coxaj-Garcia. For the foregoing reasons, the court concludes that the petitioner is currently detained pursuant to 8 U.S.C.  7; 1226(a), not 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2), and thus he is entitled to an individualized bond hearing. Accordingly, the petition will be granted, and the government will be ordered to provide the petitioner with an individualized bond hearing within twenty-one days or to release him from custody. An appropriate order follows. Signed by Honorable Joseph F. Saporito, Jr on 8/21/26. (ms)

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Aug 21, 2026

ORDER (memorandum filed previously as separate docket entry). In accordance with the accompanying Memorandum, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:1.The petition (Doc. 1) is GRANTED;2.The government shall either provide Coxaj-Garcia with a constitutionally adeq uate individualized bond hearing within twenty-one (21) days after entry of this order or release Coxaj-Garcia on his own recognizance, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a);3.At this individualized bond hearing, the government shall bear the burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the petitioners continued detention is necessary to prevent him from fleeing or harming the community;4.The respondent shall file a written notice of the outcome of this individualized bond determination by an immigration judge within seven (7) days after the date of the hearing; and5.The clerk is directed to mark this case as CLOSED. Signed by Honorable Joseph F. Saporito, Jr on 8/21/26. (ms)

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Sep 16, 2026

AMENDED MEMORANDUM (Order to follow as separate docket entry) re 6 Order (memorandum filed previously as separate docket entry),,, 5 Memorandum (Order to follow as separate docket entry). For the foregoing reasons, the court concludes that, because he is not actively seeking admission and has been living in interior of the United States for an extended period of time, the petitioners continued mandatory detention without a bond hearing under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) is unlawful. Ac cordingly, we will grant the petition and order the petitioners immediate release from custody. See Andrade v. Rose, No. 26-603, 2026 WL 401189 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 12, 2026) (granting immediate release), affd sub nom. Buele Morocho v. Warden Phila. FDC, _ __ F.4th ____, 2026 WL 2546223 (3d Cir. Aug. 28, 2026); Buele Morocho v. Jamison, No. 25-cv-05930, 2025 WL 3296300 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 26, 2025) (same), affd sub nom. Buele Morocho v. Warden Phila. FDC, ___ F.4th ____, 2026 WL 2546223 (3d Cir. Aug. 28, 2026).An appropriate order follows. Signed by Honorable Joseph F. Saporito, Jr on 9/16/26. (ms)

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Sep 16, 2026

AMENDED ORDER (amended memorandum filed previously as separate docket entry).In accordance with the accompanying Amended Memorandum, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:1.The petition (Doc. 1) is GRANTED;2.The government shall immediately release the petitione r from custody;3.The respondent shall file a written notice of the petitioners release from custody within three (3) days after such release;4.In the interim, the respondent shall file a written status report with respect to the petitioners custody status every seven (7) days after entry of this order, until the petitioners actual release from custody; and5.The clerk is directed to mark this case as CLOSED. Signed by Honorable Joseph F. Saporito, Jr on 9/16/26. (ms)

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Sep 16, 2026

ORDER re 1 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed by Carlos Eugenio Coxaj-Garcia, 3 Response to Petition for Habeas Corpus, filed by Markwayne Mullin, Todd Blanche, John E. Rife, Craig A. Lowe, David J. Venturella, 6 Order (memorandum filed previously as separate docket entry),,, 4 Traverse filed by Carlos Eugenio Coxaj-Garcia, 9 Order (memorandum filed previously as separate docket entry),, 5 Memorandum (Order to follow as separate docket entry),, 8 Memorandum (Order to follow as separate docket entry). Upon further consideration of the petition (Doc. 1), response (Doc. 3), and reply (Doc. 4), and in light of the recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Buele Morocho v. Ward en Phila. FDC, ___ F.4th ____, 2026 WL 2546223 (3d Cir. Aug. 28, 2026), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the Amended Memorandum and Amended Order filed herewith SUPERSEDE the Memorandum (Doc. 5) and Order (Doc. 6) entered in this case on August 21, 2026. Se e Bryant v. N.J. Dept of Transp., 998 F. Supp. 438, 441 (D.N.J. 1998) (A district court may... vacate a judgment pursuant to Rule 59(e) on the basis of an intervening change in controlling law.); id. at 442 (A district court may invoke this power sua sponte.); see also Graham v. Hoffer, No. 1:05-CV-2679, 2008 WL 4570667, at *1 (M.D. Pa. Oct. 10, 2008) (quoting Bryant, 998 F. Supp. at 442). Signed by Honorable Joseph F. Saporito, Jr on 9/16/26. (ms)