CAMPOS v. NAIL

No. 89-16597.

940 F.2d 495 (1991)

Maria Elena CAMPOS; Milton Cardenas Alvarado; Salomon Ayala Lopez; Rene Blanco Lopez, Luis Alonzo Hernandez-Cruz, Manuel de Jesus Jaime-Garcia, Jose Fredy Ramirez-Sanchez, Mauricio Rosales-Hernandez, Justiniano Salcado-Machado, Fredy Sandoval-Mazariegos, Maria Antonio Vasquez-Cortez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William F. NAIL, Jr.; Richard Thornburgh, Attorney General, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 30, 1991.

As Amended on Grant of Rehearing in Part and Denial of Rehearing in Part November 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Pilsbury, Central American Legal Assistance, Brooklyn, N.Y., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Stewart Deutsch, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before SNEED, SCHROEDER and CANBY, Circuit Judges.


CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Maria Elena Campos, on behalf of a class of Salvadoran and Guatemalan aliens,1 sought injunctive and declaratory relief to redress an alleged unconstitutional practice engaged in by Immigration Judge William F. Nail, Jr., and not restrained by his superior, the Attorney General. Appellants' complaint alleges that Judge Nail engaged in a "pattern and practice" of denying all requests for change of venue made by asylum...

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