CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, INC. v. THORNBURGH

Nos. 88-15046, 88-15127, 88-15128 and 88-6447.

956 F.2d 914 (1992)

CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, INC., (Centro De Guadalupe Immigration Center); California Coalition of Welfare Center for Immigrants Rights, Inc.; Mercedes Aguilar De Lopez; Maria Teresa Reyes; and Sara Orantes De Palacios, Plaintiffs-Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. Richard THORNBURGH, Attorney General of the United States of America, Defendant-Appellee and Cross-Appellant. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Withdrawn January 6, 1989.

Resubmitted February 5, 1992.

Decided February 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott R. McIntosh, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Richard Thornburgh, defendant-appellee and cross-appellant, and for U.S. Dept. of I.N.S., defendant-appellant.

Ralph Santiago Abascal, and Stephen A. Rosenbaum, California Rural Legal Assistance, Michael Rubin, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaun, Berzon and Rubin, San Francisco, Cal. and Peter Schey, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, Cal., for Catholic Social Services, Inc., plaintiffs-appellants and cross-appellees, and League of United Latin American Citizens, plaintiffs-appellees.

Before GOODWIN, SNEED and HUG, Circuit Judges.


HUG, Circuit Judge:

The Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") appeals several district court orders resulting from successful class action challenges by aliens and immigration rights groups to the INS's implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA" or "the Act"). In separate district court actions, Catholic Social Services, Inc. ("CSS") and the League of United Latin American Citizens ("LULAC") obtained declaratory and injunctive...

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