PERALES v. RENO

Nos. 253, 254, 255, Dockets 91-6133, 91-6135, 91-6167.

48 F.3d 1305 (1995)

Cesar A. PERALES, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services; New York State Department of Social Services; Robert Abrams, as Attorney General of the State of New York, and on behalf of the People of the State of New York; State of New York; City of New York, Sara Doe; Jane Roe; Anne Coe, individually and on behalf of their minor children, and on behalf of all others similarly situated and their minor children, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Fran Foe; Mary Moe; Linda Loe; Susan Soe; Zelda Zoe, individually and on behalf of their minor children, and on behalf of all others similarly situated and their minor children, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, v. Janet RENO, as Attorney General of the United States; Terrance O'Reilly, as Assistant Commissioner for Administrative Appeals Unit of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; William R. Yates, as Eastern Service Center Director of the INS Eastern Division; William S. Slattery, as INS District Director of the New York District; Donna E. Shalala, as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Loffredo, Janet Calvo, Main Street Legal Services Inc., Flushing, NY, Paul A. Crotty, Corp. Counsel to the City of New York, New York City, Pamela Seider Dolgow, Linda H. Young, of counsel; G. Oliver Koppell, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York, New York City, Judith Kramer, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Diogenes P. Kekatos, Asst. U.S. Atty., for the S.D. of N.Y. (Mary Jo White, U.S. Atty. for the S.D. of N.Y., Marla Alhadeff, Asst. U.S. Atty. for the S.D. of N.Y. of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before: CARDAMONE, WALKER, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


WALKER, Circuit Judge:

This class action was brought to challenge the Immigration and Naturalization Service's administration of the amnesty program for eligible illegal aliens authorized by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"), Pub.L. No. 99-603, 100 Stat. 3359 et seq. Plaintiffs alleged that the agency's regulations implementing the statutory exclusion of aliens "likely at any time to become a...

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