Frescia Anthuane Garro Pinchi v. Sergio Albarran, et al.

CourtDistrict Court, N.D. California
DecidedJuly 8, 2026
Docket5:25-cv-10831
StatusUnknown

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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 FRESCIA ANTHUANE GARRO PINCHI, Case No. 25-cv-10831-PCP

8 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO 9 v. MODIFY PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 10 SERGIO ALBARRAN, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 12 Defendants. 11

12 13 Plaintiff Frescia Garro Pinchi is an asylum-seeker from Peru who entered the United States 14 without lawful admission in April 2023. The same day, agents of the Department of Homeland 15 Security briefly detained Ms. Garro Pinchi before releasing her on her own recognizance pursuant 16 to 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a), which necessitated a finding that she posed no flight risk or danger to the 17 public. See 8 C.F.R. § 1236.1(c)(8); Garro Pinchi v. Noem (“Garro Pinchi III”), 813 F. Supp. 3d 18 973, 1019 (N.D. Cal. 2025). In July 2025, DHS agents arrested Ms. Garro Pinchi as she was 19 leaving a routine hearing at the San Francisco immigration court. Hours later, she commenced this 20 action by filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a concurrent motion for a temporary 21 restraining order, later followed by a motion for a preliminary injunction. The Court found that 22 Ms. Garro Pinchi’s detention without prior notice and a bond hearing before a neutral immigration 23 judge likely violated her due-process rights under the Fifth Amendment. The Court therefore 24 granted her motions for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, ordered her 25 immediate release, and enjoined the government from re-detaining her absent such process during 26 the pendency of this action. See Garro Pinchi v. Noem (“Garro Pinchi I”), No. 25-CV-05632, 27 1 2025 WL 1853763, at *4 (N.D. Cal. July 4, 2025); Garro Pinchi v. Noem (“Garro Pinchi II”), 792 2 F. Supp. 3d 1025, 1038 (N.D. Cal. 2025).1 3 Over the past year, DHS has imposed a variety of new conditions of release on Ms. Garro 4 Pinchi. DHS did so without prior notice or an opportunity for Ms. Garro Pinchi to argue before a 5 neutral arbiter that DHS lacks a legitimate reason for imposing the conditions. The conditions 6 include requirements that she (1) complete a virtual check-in within a random 30-minute period 7 each Monday morning by uploading a photo of herself to a “SmartLink” application; (2) download 8 the SmartLink application to her mobile device, which enables DHS to track her location when the 9 application is in use; (3) attend in-person check-ins with an Intensive Supervision Appearance 10 Program (ISAP) every four weeks; (4) attend additional check-ins with Immigration and Customs 11 Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) annually; and (5) except in 12 emergency situations, seek approval two weeks in advance of any travel either “outside of the 13 [B]ay Area,” outside of the boundaries displayed on a physical map provided to Ms. Garro Pinchi 14 by DHS, or more than 75 miles from her home address.2 It is undisputed that Ms. Garro Pinchi 15 was not subject to any of these conditions prior to her re-detention and court-ordered release in 16 2025. Instead, between her initial release in April 2023 and her re-detention in July 2025, DHS 17 required only that Ms. Garro Pinchi appear at its San Francisco office on one date in May 2023.3 18 The parties dispute whether she did so. 19 1 Ms. Garro Pinchi later amended her complaint to add new parties and assert additional claims 20 under the Administrative Procedure Act. The Court severed this action from the APA action, which is proceeding under the original case number. See Dkt. No. 84, Garro Pinchi v. Mullin, 21 Case No. 25-cv-5632. 22 2 See Declaration of Frescia Anthuane Garro Pinchi, Dkt. No. 12-2 ¶¶ 8–12 (describing conditions, including travel limitation based on the physical map depicted at Dkt. No. 12-2); Email from ICE 23 Enforcement and Removal Operations (May 28, 2026), Dkt. No. 12-1, at 5 (advising Ms. Garro Pinchi’s counsel that “[i]f she is going to travel outside of the bay area, she must notify ISAP with 24 her travel itinerary two weeks prior to obtain approval from ERO”); Declaration of Deportation Officer Jarvin Li, Dkt. No. 16-1 ¶¶ 16–18 (describing conditions, including 75-mile travel 25 limitation). 3 The government’s position as to the conditions of Ms. Garro Pinchi’s initial release in 2023 has 26 shifted over the course of this litigation. At first, the government made no representation that Ms. Garro Pinchi had been subject to any in-person check-in requirement. See, e.g., Declaration of 27 Deportation Officer Anthony D. Lazalde, Jr., Dkt. 20-1, Garro Pinchi v. Noem, No. 5:25-cv- 1 Ms. Garro Pinchi argues that the manner in which DHS imposed these conditions violated 2 her due-process rights. She therefore moves to modify the Court’s prior order granting a 3 preliminary injunction and to enjoin the government from imposing supervision conditions that 4 did not exist prior to her July 2025 re-detention without notice and a hearing to determine whether 5 a material change of circumstances justifies such conditions. For the reasons that follow, the 6 motion is GRANTED. 7 LEGAL STANDARDS 8 “A district court has inherent authority to modify a preliminary injunction in consideration 9 of new facts.” A & M Records, Inc. v. Napster, 284 F.3d 1091, 1098 (9th Cir. 2002); see also 10 Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. v. Grunwald, 400 F.3d 1119, 1124 (9th Cir. 2005). “[The] party 11 seeking modification … bears the burden of establishing that a significant change in facts or law 12 warrants revision … of the injunction.” Alto v. Black, 738 F.3d 1111, 1120 (9th Cir. 2013) 13 (citation modified) (quoting Sharp v. Weston, 233 F.3d 1166, 1170 (9th Cir. 2000)). In 14 determining whether a change warrants a modification, a court’s “inquiry should be guided by the 15 same criteria that govern the issuance of a preliminary injunction,” i.e., the Winter factors. 16 Karnoski v. Trump, 926 F.3d 1180, 1198 (9th Cir. 2019). Under these factors, the party seeking an 17 injunction “must establish that [1] [s]he is likely to succeed on the merits, [2] that [s]he is likely to 18 suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief, [3] that the balance of equities tips in 19 h[er] favor, and [4] that an injunction is in the public interest.” Winter v. Nat. Res. Def. Council, 20 Inc., 555 U.S. 7, 20 (2008). The final two factors “merge when the Government is the opposing 21 party.” Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 435 (2009). 22 23 24 25 Opposition to Motion for Clarification, Dkt. No. 6, at 4. The government based that assertion on 26 DHS’s April 2023 order releasing Ms. Garro Pinchi on recognizance, which stated that she “must report” to DHS’s San Francisco office on May 16, 2023. See Dkt. No. 6-2, at 10. In its opposition 27 to the instant motion, however, the government abandons its argument that Ms. Garro Pinchi was previously subject to a monthly check-in requirement, instead conceding that she was required to 1 ANALYSIS 2 Ms. Garro Pinchi asserts that DHS’s imposition of no fewer than five new supervisory 3 conditions since July 2025 constitutes “a significant change in facts” warranting revision of the 4 Court’s preliminary injunction. Alto, 738 F.3d at 1120. The government does not dispute that the 5 conditions are a significant change, and the Court agrees that they are. The only question, then, is 6 whether the Winter factors favor a modification of the injunction. 7 I.

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