(HC) Singh v. Garland
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
GURMEET SINGH, Case No. 1:23-cv-01043-EPG-HC
Petitioner, ORDER GRANTING IN PART
PETITIONER’S MOTION FOR
v. TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
MERRICK GARLAND, et al., (ECF No. 2) Respondents.
16 Petitioner Gurmeet Singh, represented by counsel, is a federal immigration detainee proceeding with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The parties have consented to the jurisdiction of a United States magistrate judge. (ECF Nos. 9, 12.) For the reasons set forth herein, the Court orders that Petitioner’s motion for temporary restraining order is granted in part. I. BACKGROUND Petitioner is from India and first entered the United States in May 1988 when he was eight years old as a lawful permanent resident. (ECF No. 2-2 at 2; ECF No. 8 at 3; ECF No. 8-1 at 2; ECF No. 8-2 at 2.)1 Petitioner was convicted of conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to…