ANETEKHAI v. U.S. I.N.S.

Civ. A. No. 88-0827.

685 F.Supp. 599 (1988)

Paul ANETEKHAI and Mona Anetekhai v. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; Edwin Meese, III as Attorney General of the United States of America; John Z. Caplinger as Director of the New Orleans District Office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

June 2, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine Lampard, Tulane Law Clinic, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Reneé Clark McGinty, Asst. U.S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for defendants.


DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Paul and Mona Anetekhai seek judgment declaring 8 U.S.C. § 1154(h) unconstitutional and enjoining the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, its New Orleans District Director, and the Attorney General of the United States from enforcing its provisions. Section 1154(h) was enacted as part of the 1986 Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments and provides that "a petition may not be approved to grant an alien immediate...

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