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Two federal case types

Lexfill’s litigation case types don’t file anything with USCIS. Each collects the facts a federal court filing is built from, and the outputs are court documents: an analysis, a drafted pleading, and the complete filing package. Both run the same arc — a client-facing intake questionnaire, an attorney worksheet the client never sees, an analysis Lex runs before it drafts, and a package you file.

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Federal Mandamus

For unreasonable delay. The mandamus intake questionnaire collects:
  • The delayed application — receipt number, filing date, the office handling it, current status.
  • Case timeline — every notice, appointment and response, in order.
  • Attempts to resolve the delay — e-Requests, USCIS calls, Ombudsman and congressional inquiries, expedite requests.
  • Hardship — the specific, personal consequences of the delay.
Risk screening and venue/counsel live on the attorney worksheet. The outputs: a delay analysis graded against USCIS’s own published processing times; a drafted federal complaint; and the filing package — JS-44 civil cover sheet, AO 440 summonses, and the service documents. Ask Lex with /mandamus on a linked mandamus matter: it runs the delay analysis first and tells you plainly if the case is weak or premature — and stops there rather than drafting something you shouldn’t file.
Filing a mandamus invites USCIS to fully adjudicate. On a weak underlying case that can mean a denial and a Notice to Appear. Lex repeats this warning every time it drafts a complaint.

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Habeas Corpus — Detention (28 U.S.C. § 2241)

For detention review. Because the client is detained, the habeas intake questionnaire is written to be completed by the attorney, their staff, or a family member:
  • Where they are held — the facility and its street address, the A-number, and every period in immigration custody (which drives both venue and the time-detained math).
  • The immigration case — posture (proceedings pending, final removal order, related history), appeal status, travel-document history.
  • Bond requests — each request, the judge’s decision and its stated ground, and any appeal.
  • Health, family, and who is filling this out — medical needs, family circumstances, conditions at the facility.
Claims screening and venue/respondents live on the attorney worksheet — the family never sees them. The outputs: a detention analysis with its reasons spelled out; a drafted § 2241 petition with its verification block; and the filing package — JS-44 with the Alien Detainee nature-of-suit, AO 440 summonses per respondent, service documents, and (when requested on the worksheet) an application for an order to show cause asking the court to set a fast response deadline. Ask Lex with /habeas on a linked habeas matter.
Two things Lex flags on every habeas draft: mootness — habeas requires custody at filing, so release during litigation may moot the petition; and transfer — jurisdiction attaches at filing, so file in the district of confinement before any transfer. A transfer after filing does not defeat it.

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What stays yours

Each generator refuses the other’s case type, and neither should be imitated with a general drafting request. After a successful draft, Lex flags what you must verify by hand — the defendant or respondent set (especially the immediate custodian), venue, and every fact pulled from the intake.