EDWARDS v. BOWEN

No. 85-2660, 85-2821.

785 F.2d 1440 (1986)

Don EDWARDS; Richard H. Lehman; Sala Burton; Howard Berman, Robert T. Matsui; Vic Fazio; County of Santa Clara; Lao Family Community, Inc.; Bach Viet Association, Inc.; and Teng Khang, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Otis BOWEN, Secretary of United States Department of Health and Human Services; James Baker, as Secretary of the United States Department of Treasury; and Joseph Wright, as Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Rubin, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Nicholas Zeppos, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants.

Before MERRILL, GOODWIN, and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.


MERRILL, Circuit Judge:

This expedited appeal involves a dispute over the amount appropriated by Congress for the Refugee Targeted Assistance Program in fiscal year 1985. We affirm the judgment for the plaintiffs.

Congress originally created the Refugee Targeted Assistance Program under Title III of the Refugee Act of 1980, Pub.L. No. 96-212, 94 Stat. 102, 109, codified as amended at 8 U.S.C. §§ 1521-25 (1982).

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