--- title: "United States v. Ayala" citation: "894 F.2d 425 (D.C. Cir. 1990)" authority_id: "AUTH-CADC-AYALA-894-F2D-425" authority_type: "case" jurisdiction: "federal_dc_circuit" precedential_status: "binding_in_cadc" url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-CADC-AYALA-894-F2D-425/" legal_review: "2026-08-26" links_checked: "2026-10-15" links_available: 1 links_checked_count: 1 license: "CC BY 4.0" --- # United States v. Ayala ## Holdings used - Audita querela cannot rest on pure equity and, if it survives, can reach only a legal objection not cognizable through existing federal postconviction remedies; claims cognizable under § 2255 belong there. ## Material limitation Binding only in the D.C. Circuit and only for the bounded procedural postures in the linked claims. Published precedential full opinion reviewed from a public reporter reproduction after no stable historical official opinion file was located. Ayala did not finally decide survival, rejected a pure-equity immigration-consequence theory, and remanded for § 2255 treatment without deciding constitutional merits. A comprehensive commercial citator was not run. ## Official source and pinpoints 894 F.2d 425 (D.C. Cir. 1990), 894 F.2d 427–30: ## Linked claims - `CLM-CIRDC-005` ## Used in - [D.C. Circuit Overlay](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/95-circuit-overlays/dc-circuit.md)