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AMANULLAH v. NELSON

Nos. 86-1604, 86-1625 and 86-1635.

811 F.2d 1 (1987)

AMANULLAH & Wahidullah, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Alan C. NELSON, Charles T. Cobb, and Anne Frank, Defendants, Appellees. Mohammed OSMAN MOHIBI, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Alan C. NELSON, Etc., et al., Defendants, Appellees. Ziaullah SADDOZAI, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Alan C. NELSON, Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie Heins, Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union Foundation, with whom Richard C. Csaplar, Jr., Margaret H. Marshall, Kerry J. Tucker, Csaplar & Bok, Boston, Mass., Regina F. Lee, The Legal Services Center, Jamaica Plain, Mass., Arthur C. Helton, Lawyers Committee for Intern. Human Rights, New York City, and Margaret Bruer were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Michael P. Lindemann, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Thomas W. Hussey, Asst. Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before BOWNES, TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The petitioners in these consolidated appeals are four Afghanistanis who are currently being detained by the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) pending final resolution of exclusion proceedings against them. Having been denied parole from detention, they filed a total of three petitions for writs of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.1 These applications...

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