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LIT-1606: Noem v. Abrego Garcia

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StatusActive — read 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1376) in full, from the Court's own slip opinion on supremecourt.gov; worth reading as the order that upheld a district court's power to require the government to "facilitate" release from a foreign state's custody, on the government's own acknowledgment that the removal was illegal, while leaving open whether it could require the government to "effectuate" return. Read it knowing that it is a two-page interim order with one paragraph of reasons, that its facts are the parties' representations, and that the four-page document includes a statement by three justices, not the Court, rejecting the argument that courts lose power once a deportee crosses the border.
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ReportsCASE-175 — CECOT, 2025: people removed from the United States into Salvadoran custody despite court orders, the US saying it could not bring them back and El Salvador's president that he could not send them, until coordinated transfers out showed the two governments together could
Cited as “extends” byLIT-1841 — Abrego Garcia v. Noem, Order Granting Expedited Discovery (D. Md., ECF No. 79)
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1376 — Supreme Court — Noem v. Abrego Garcia

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Supreme Court of the United States (2025). Noem v. Abrego Garcia, No. 24A949, 604 U.S. ___ (10 April 2025), on application to vacate injunction.

Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1376).

Why this is here

The legal anchor of CASE-175: an acknowledged unlawful removal into another state’s custody, after which the question became which government could, or had to, act to undo it. Only the first page was read when filing.

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