AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION v. RENO

Nos. 94-55405, 94-55444 and 95-55177.

70 F.3d 1045 (1995)

AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE; Arab American Democratic Federation; Association of American University Graduates; Irish National Caucus; Palestine Human Rights Campaign; League of United Latin American Citizens; Michael Bogopolsky; Darrel Meyers; Southern California Inter-Faith Task Force on Central America; Aiad Khaled Barakat; Khader Musa Hamide; Nuangugi Julie Mungai; Amjad Mustafa Obeid; Ayman Mustafa Obeid; Naim Nadim Sharif; Michael Ibrahim Shehadeh; Bashar Amer; American Association of University Professors; Fund for Free Expression; American Friends Service Committee, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Janet RENO, in her capacity as Attorney General of The United States of America, et al.; Ernest E. Gustafson, District Director; Immigration & Naturalization Service, Defendants-Appellees. AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE; Arab American Democratic Federation; Association of American University Graduates; Irish National Caucus, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Janet RENO; Doris Meissner; Harold Ezell; C.M. McCullough, et al., Defendants-Appellants. AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE; Arab American Democratic Federation; Association of American University Graduates; Irish National Caucus; Aiad Barakat; Naim Sharif, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Janet RENO; Doris Meissner; Harold Ezell; Gustavo De la Vina; Ernest E. Gustafson; Richard K. Rogers, District Director; Immigration & Naturalization Service, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc Van Der Hout, National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco, California; Dan Stormer, Hadsell & Stormer, Pasadena, California; David Cole, Ctr. for Constitutional Rights, Georgetown University Law Center, argued, Washington, D.C.; Paul L. Hoffman, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Carol Sobel, A.C.L.U. Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; John Scanlan, Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 94-55405.

Douglas Letter and Steven R. Valentine, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Michael P. Linderman and Linda S. Wendtland, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C.; Michael C. Johnson, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellees in No. 94-55405.

Douglas Letter, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Michael P. Linderman, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C.; Michael C. Johnson, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellants in No. 94-55444.

Paul L. Hoffman, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Carol Sobel, A.C.L.U. Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Marc Van Der Hout, National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco, California; David Cole, Ctr. for Constitutional Rights, Georgetown University Law Center, argued, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellees in No. 94-55444.

Michael S. Raab and Douglas Letter, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Michael C. Johnson, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California; Michael P. Linderman, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants in No. 95-55177.

Paul L. Hoffman, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Carol Sobel, A.C.L.U. Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Marc Van Der Hout, National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco, California; David Cole, Ctr. for Constitutional Rights, Georgetown University Law Center, argued, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellees in No. 95-55177.

Before D.W. NELSON, CANBY, Circuit Judges, and TANNER, District Judge.


D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:

This opinion decides three cases that have been consolidated on appeal. Two of the cases involve claims of selective enforcement1 of immigration laws in violation of the aliens' First Amendment rights, arising from the initiation of deportation proceedings under various provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("the INA"), codified as amended at 8 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq. (1994), against Aiad...

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