GARCIA-MIR v. MEESE

Nos. 86-8010, 86-8011.

788 F.2d 1446 (1986)

Moises GARCIA-MIR, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. Edwin MEESE, III, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees. Rafael FERNANDEZ-ROQUE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. Edwin MEESE, III, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 23, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nina R. Hickson, Sharon Douglas Stokes, Asst. U.S. Attys., Atlanta, Ga., Lauri Steven Filppu, Deputy Dir., Office of Immigration, Litigation, (Alison R. Drucker, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Barbara V. Tinsley, Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

William Thompson, Atlanta Legal Aid, Dale Schwartz, Myron Kramer, Deborah Ebel, David Webster, Emory Univ. Sch. of Law, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Arthur C. Helton, Lawyer Comm. Human Rights, New York City, for amicus curiae, ACLU, et al.

Before VANCE and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and ALLGOOD, Senior District Judge.


JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

These cases pose the question whether unadmitted aliens properly may claim the protection of the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution to secure parole revocation hearings. We earlier determined that, for unadmitted aliens, the right to such hearings is not resident in the core values of the Due Process Clause per se. We are today asked to determine whether some actionable liberty interest exists, not based on a core value...

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