Skripnikov v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
ALIK SKRIPNIKOV 	CIVIL ACTION
VERSUS 	No. 25-2400
UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION
AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT 	SECTION I
ORDER & REASONS
Plaintiff Alik Skripnikov (“plaintiff”) filed a habeas corpus petition1 pursuant
to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, challenging the validity of his detention in Richwood Correctional
Center on immigration charges. Before considering the merits of plaintiff’s petition,
“the Court must determine as a threshold matter whether it has proper jurisdiction
to entertain [p]laintiff’s habeas petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241(a).” Dada v.
Witte, No. 20-1093, 2020 WL 1674129, at *2 (E.D. La. Apr. 6, 2020). “[T]he only
district that may consider a habeas corpus challenge to present physical confinement
pursuant to § 2241 is the district court in which the prisoner is confined.” Id. (quoting
United States v. McPhearson, 451 F.App’x 384, 387 (5th Cir. 2011)); 28 U.S.C.
§ 2241(d) (“. . . the application may be filed in the district court for the district
wherein such person is in custody . . . .”).
Richwood Correctional Center is located in Monroe, Louisiana.2 Monroe,
1 R. Doc. No. 1.
2 Richwood Correctional Center, U.S. I MMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (last
updated 	Feb. 	10, 	2025), 	https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/richwood-
correctional-center.
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Louisiana is located in the Western District of Louisiana.3 Plaintiff is confined in the
Western District of Louisiana, and this Court does not have jurisdiction to consider
plaintiff’s petition. See id. at *2–3; Cesar David Cruz Corral v. Villegas, 25-2992, 2025
WL 3124013 (N.D. Tex. Nov. 7, 2025).
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED that in the interest of justice the above-captioned matter is
TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Western District of
Louisiana.4
New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2, 2025.
_______________________________________
LANCE M. AFRICK
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
3 WESTERN D ISTRICT OF L OUISIANA, https://www.lawd.uscourts.gov/ (last visited Dec.
2, 2025).
4 See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a) (“The district court of a district in which is filed a case laying
venue in the wrong division or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest of
justice, transfer such case to any district or division in which it could have been
brought.”).
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