---
title: "United States v. Texeira-Nieves"
citation: "23 F.4th 48 (1st Cir. 2022)"
authority_id: "AUTH-CA1-TEXEIRA-NIEVES-23-F4TH-48"
authority_type: "case"
jurisdiction: "federal_first_circuit"
precedential_status: "binding_in_ca1"
official_url: "https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/opnfiles/21-1034P-01A.pdf"
url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-CA1-TEXEIRA-NIEVES-23-F4TH-48/"
legal_review: "2026-08-25"
links_checked: "2026-10-15"
links_available: 1
links_checked_count: 1
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# United States v. Texeira-Nieves

## Holdings used

- Section 3582(c)(1)(A)'s defendant-filing prerequisite is nonjurisdictional; the court assumed without deciding whether issue exhaustion applies.

## Material limitation

Binding only in the First Circuit and only for the bounded procedural postures in the linked claims. Official published opinion and public full-text mirror reviewed. The opinion expressly leaves issue exhaustion unresolved; no former policy-statement or pandemic merits proposition is adopted. A comprehensive commercial citator was not run.

## Official source and pinpoints

23 F.4th 48 (1st Cir. 2022), 23 F.4th 52–53: <https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/opnfiles/21-1034P-01A.pdf>

## Linked claims

- `CLM-CIR1-004`


## Used in

- [First Circuit Overlay](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/95-circuit-overlays/first-circuit.md)
