UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FILED FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Andre Juste, ) Mork, U.S. District & Bankruptey ) Courts for the District of Columbi Petitioner, ) ) V. ) Civil Action No, 19-2170 (UNA) ) ) Circuit Court, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, ) ) Respondent. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION

Petitioner Andre Juste, appearing pro se, has filed a “Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241” against a Florida state court. See Case Caption; Pet. 76. “The writ of habeas corpus shall not extend to a [petitioner] unless” he is “‘in custody” under some authority.

(c). From all indications in the petition, Juste is not in custody. Besides, the named circuit court is not a proper respondent to a habeas petition, See Rumsfeld v. Padilla,

(2004) (discussing immediate custodian rule); accord Blair-Bey v. Quick,

(D.C. Cir. 1998). Therefore, this case will be dismissed for want of

jurisdiction. A separate order accompanies this Memorandum Opinion.

Date: September IZ , 2019