OCCIDENTAL ENGINEERING CO. v. I.N.S.

No. 84-5601.

753 F.2d 766 (1985)

OCCIDENTAL ENGINEERING COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, and Yi Ling Wang, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; Dorothy Meisner, Acting Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Ed O'Connor, Regional Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Michael H. Landon, District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; William French Smith, Attorney General of the United States, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald H. Bonaparte, Bonaparte, Ibarra & O'Kane, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ian Fan, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before SNEED, POOLE, and FERGUSON, Circuit Judges.


SNEED, Circuit Judge:

Occidental Engineering Company (Occidental) appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). In the district court Occidental sought to overturn the INS's denial of its petition to reclassify an employee from visitor to temporary worker status as a person of "distinguished merit and ability" under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(H)(i). This court has jurisdiction of the appeal pursuant...

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