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Courts must advance and expedite these cases

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes, section 3, Sec. 3. Written by .

Courts must advance and expedite these cases

The document says “shallWho acts: United States district courtsHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says

“The court shall advance on the docket and expedite the disposition of a civil action filed under this paragraph to the greatest extent practicable.”

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes, Sec. 3

Each new right of action that section 3 creates carries the same instruction to the court: advance the case on the docket and expedite its disposition to the greatest extent practicable. The sentence is quoted here from the new section 235(b)(3), added by subsection (a). Near-identical copies appear in the new section 236(f), section 243(e), section 212(d)(5)(C), and section 241(a)(2)(B).

What the document actually says

“The court shall advance on the docket and expedite the disposition of a civil action filed under this paragraph to the greatest extent practicable.”

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes, Sec. 3
That sentence, in plain words

The court must put these cases near the front of the line. It must finish them as fast as it can.

What this is about

A docket is the court's list of cases. This same rule shows up in each new part that this section adds.

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