Perera
Perera v. Jennings
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 6 IMESH PERERA, Case No. 21-cv-04136-BLF
Petitioner–Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING PETITION FOR
v. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
DAVID W. JENNINGS, et al., [Re: ECF No. 1] Respondents–Defendants.
12 In this case, Petitioner–Plaintiff Imesh Perera has filed a writ of habeas corpus and complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief seeking to require Defendants David W. Jennings, Tae D. Johnson, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Merrick B. Garland to provide him with a bond hearing before a neutral decisionmaker after being taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ECF No. 18-2 (“Pet.”). After ICE detained Perera on April 21, 2021—nearly six years after he was released from federal custody—and denied him a bond hearing, this Court granted Perera’s motion for a temporary restraining order and enjoined ICE from detaining him for more than seven additional days without a bond hearing…