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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JORGE LUIS MANUEL SEBASTIAN; Case No. 26-cv-00306-BAS-AHG

EVARISTO JOSE QUIRINO; AND

YUXING GAO, ORDER REQUIRING THE

GOVERNMENT TO RESPOND TO Petitioners,

PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS

14 v. CORPUS (ECF No. 1) 15 JEREMY CASEY, et al., 16 Respondents.

18 On January 18, 2026, Petitioners Jorge Luis Manuel Sebastian, Evaristo Jose Quirino, and Yuxing Gao filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. (ECF No. 1.) Petitioners claim that they are being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in violation of the immigration laws and the Central District’s decision in Maldonado Bautista v. Noem, No. 5:25-CV-01873-SSS-BFM, 2025 WL 3678485 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 18, 2025). (Id.) Having reviewed the Petition, the Court finds summary dismissal is unwarranted at this time. See Kourteva v. INS, 151 F. Supp. 2d 1126, 1128 (N.D. Cal. 2001) (“Summary dismissal is…