AZIZI v. THORNBURGH

No. 832, Docket 89-6222.

908 F.2d 1130 (1990)

Saboet Elmazi AZIZI and Feim Azizi, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Richard L. THORNBURGH, Attorney General of the United States, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lucas Guttentag, New York City (Judy Rabinovitz, American Civil Liberties Union Immigration Task Force, New York City, Martha Stone, Philip D. Tegeler, Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Ryszard S. Mrotek, William J. Anastasi, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Peter Schuck, New Haven, Conn., for amici curiae.

David V. Bernal, Washington, D.C. (Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., David J. Kline, Asst. Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Stanley A. Twardy, Jr., U.S. Atty., D. Conn., Nancy Griffin, Asst. U.S. Atty., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before FEINBERG, CARDAMONE and MINER, Circuit Judges.


MINER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Saboet Azizi ("Mrs. Azizi"), a naturalized citizen of the United States, and her husband, plaintiff-appellant Feim Azizi ("Mr. Azizi"), a citizen of Yugoslavia, appeal from a summary judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Nevas, J.) on August 4, 1989 rejecting their constitutional challenges to section 5 of the Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 ("IMFA"), 8 U...

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