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Mendoza Gutierrez v. Baltasar — 10th Cir. (Sep 15, 2026)

No. 25-1460 Argued September 15, 2026 Published September 28, 2026

Nestor Mendoza Gutierrez had lived in the Denver area for more than twenty-five years when immigration officers detained him in May 2025. After the government changed its reading of the immigration detention law, an immigration judge said he could not grant Gutierrez bond. Gutierrez sought federal court relief, and a Colorado judge ordered him released pending a bond hearing. The judge later conditionally certified a class of similarly situated detainees and barred their transfer out of Colorado while the case continues. The government appealed. A separate Tenth Circuit decision has since resolved the underlying detention-law question: people arrested after living inside the country are generally eligible for bond. What remains here is whether federal law bars the classwide transfer order, or whether the judge could use the All Writs Act to preserve meaningful court review.

Mendoza Gutierrez v. Baltasar (No. 25-1460) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, argued September 15, 2026.

Sources
Argument audio — Tenth Circuit (public domain, 17 U.S.C. § 105):https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/oralarguments/25-1460.mp3
Argument date and docket — Tenth Circuit:https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/oralargument/search-results?field_oa_hearing_date_value%5Bmin%5D%5Bdate%5D=08%2F01%2F2026&field_oa_hearing_date_value%5Bmax%5D%5Bdate%5D=09%2F28%2F2026
Original emergency order and case facts — District of Colorado:https://www.aclu-co.org/app/uploads/2025/09/Order-Granting-Emergency-TRO.pdf
Class and transfer order — District of Colorado:https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/colorado/codce/1:2025cv02720/246978/47/0.pdf
Procedural history — District of Colorado:https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cod-1_25-cv-02720/pdf/USCOURTS-cod-1_25-cv-02720-1.pdf
Santillan Quiroz detention ruling — Tenth Circuit:https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/010111461009.pdf
Case and counsel information — ACLU of Colorado:https://www.aclu-co.org/cases/nestor-esai-mendoza-gutierrez-v-baltasar-et-al/
8 U.S.C. § 1252(f)(1) — U.S. Code:https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1252%20edition:prelim)
All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651 — U.S. Code:https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:28%20section:1651%20edition:prelim)

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