Unreported / Non-Citable
Disposition notice
On October 12, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued a judgment in Ramon Lopez Martinez v. Joshua Johnson, et al., No. 5:26-cv-03619-SK, adjudging that the action brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 is dismissed without prejudice. The one-page judgment states it was entered "In accordance with the Order Denying First Amended Petition," so the court's reasoning appears in that separate order rather than in the judgment itself. The judgment expressly provides that the court retains jurisdiction over any future claim or action by Martinez that he is being held in civil immigration custody within the district in violation of federal law under § 2241, citing 28 U.S.C. § 1651 and Eldridge v. Howard, 70 F.4th 543, 551 (9th Cir. 2023), for the principle that the abuse-of-the-writ doctrine precludes reconsideration of claims that were or could have been raised in a prior habeas petition. The judgment bears the date October 12, 2026, and a signature line for United States Magistrate Judge Steve Kim.