Zhou

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 JAKE ZHOU a/k/a JIEYANG ZHOU, No. 2:25-cv-01186-TLN-JDP 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 TODD M. LYONS, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 15 Defendant. 16 17 This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff Jake Zhou a/k/a Jieyang Zhou’s (“Plaintiff”) 18 Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order (“TRO”) against Defendant Todd M. Lyons, Acting 19 Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE” or “Defendant”). (ECF No. 2.) 20 For the reasons set forth below, Plaintiff’s motion is GRANTED. 21 /// 22 /// 23 /// 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// 27 /// 28 /// 1 I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1 2 The instant action arises out of Defendant’s allegedly unlawful termination of Plaintiff’s 3 record in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (“SEVIS”) and his F-1 4 nonimmigrant student status. (ECF No. 1.) Plaintiff is a citizen and national of the People’s 5 Republic of China. (Id. at 9.) In 2018, the University of Southern California (“USC”)…