On November 5, 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) ruled (French only) in Sophie Mukarubega v. Préfet de police and Préfet de la Seine-Saint-Denis that France was not required to grant a Rwandan asylum seeker a second opportunity to be heard before deciding to return her to Rwanda.  According to the press release, Rwandan national Sophie Mukarubega may be returned to Rwanda from France without a second hearing since she had received due process from a French immigration court during the first determination of the legality of her stay.  The Court found that “where the national authorities are contemplating the simultaneous adoption of a decision determining a stay to be illegal and a return decision, those authorities need not necessarily hear the person concerned specifically on the return decision, since that person had the opportunity effectively to present his/her point of view on the question of whether the stay was illegal.” The Court determined that “the obligation to hear her specifically on the return decision would needlessly prolong the administrative procedure, without adding to her legal protection.”