FLORES BY GALVEZ-MALDONADO v. MEESE

No. 88-6249.

934 F.2d 991 (1990)

Jenny Lisette FLORES, a minor, by next friend Mario Hugh GALVEZ-MALDONADO; Dominga Hernandez-Hernandez, a minor, by next friend Jose Saul Mira; Alma Yanira Cruz-Aldama, a minor, by next friend Herman Perililo Tanchez, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Edwin MEESE, III; Immigration & Naturalization Service; Harold Ezell, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1990.

As Amended September 7, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Carlos Holguin, Nat. Center for Immigrants' Rights, Inc., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WALLACE and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and LLOYD D. GEORGE, District Judge.


WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

The Attorney General and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) appeal the district court's summary judgment to a plaintiff class of alien minors whose named representative is Jenny Flores (Flores). The district court held that an INS regulation governing the release of detained alien minors violates substantive due process, and ordered modifications to the regulation. The district court also held that INS procedures fell short of the...

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