# Zadvydas v. Davis **Status: stub — expand.** Vote counts to be verified against Oyez before they are stated here. Read **8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(6)** to contain an implicit reasonableness limit on post-removal-order detention: **six months** is presumptively the outer bound once removal is not reasonably foreseeable. The Court reached that construction partly to avoid the constitutional problem of indefinite civil detention. **Why it matters:** the only real ceiling on holding someone the government cannot actually deport — and the reason third-country removal agreements exist, since a destination that "will accept" restarts the clock. See [[Immigration Removal Pipeline]]. ## See Also - [[Habeas Corpus Timeline]] · [[Habeas Corpus]] · [[Suspension Clause]]