U.S. District Judge Denise Casper on Friday moved the case to Vermont, where Ozturk was being held at the time the petition was filed. In doing so, she cited a federal law that says if a case is filed in the wrong venue, it can be transferred to any district in which it could have been brought if such a move serves “the interest of justice.”

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, was taken into custody by immigration officials on March 25.

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts, driven to Vermont and flown to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government was trying to argue her court case.