Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Sweed v. Dretke
540 U.S. 1175
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 2004-02-23
- Topic
- labor-and-employment
How later courts describe this case
- holding 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(2) "does not authorize the Attorney General to remove Petitioners to Somalia because it lacks a functioning government that can accept them."
- "Because there was an adequate remedy in the Court of Federal Claims for the claims set forth in Mr. Martinez’s complaint, ... the waiver of sovereign immunity under ... the APA ... would not have been available.”
- granting certiorari to the unreported Eleventh Circuit decision
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- Cited by
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