Unreported / Non-Citable
Disposition notice
On October 29, 2026, U.S. Magistrate Judge Steve Kim of the Central District of California entered judgment in Luocheng Zhang v. Fereti Semaia, et al., No. 5:26-cv-06032-SK. In accordance with the court’s order denying the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the action under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 was dismissed without prejudice. The judgment states that the court retains jurisdiction over any successive § 2241 action filed in the district alleging that Zhang is being held in immigration custody within the district in violation of federal law. It also cites the abuse-of-the-writ doctrine, which precludes reconsideration of claims that were or could have been raised in a prior habeas petition. The judgment itself does not supply the reasons for denying the petition; it refers to the separate denial order.