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Immigration
Suits against the federal immigration agencies: mandamus and APA actions over delayed adjudications, naturalization litigation, and federal-court review of agency decisions.
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Case note · August 2026
Unreasonable by When? Mandamus and the Silent Green-Card File
When an adjudication goes quiet for years, the district court is not a suggestion box. What the unreasonable-delay cases actually turn on — the jurisdictional bar that is rarely briefed, the two TRAC factors that decide the case, and what the agency’s own published data can be made to prove.
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Case note · August 2026
The 120-Day Clock: Naturalization Under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b)
Examined but undecided: how the 120-day provision moves a naturalization file from the agency’s desk to an Article III judge’s — when the clock starts, whether filing strips the agency of authority, why the Second Circuit has never decided it, and why the door is narrower than it looks.
Both notes are intended to be read together: the first covers delay claims under the APA and the mandamus statute, the second the one corner of the field where Congress supplied a hard deadline. Subscribe to the RSS feed for what follows.