CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, INC. v. RENO

No. 96-15495.

134 F.3d 921 (1997)

CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, INC.; American Federation of Labor—Congress of Industrial Organizations; United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO; Miguel Moran; Kamiel Abubakr; Maria Magana; Elias Velasquez; Maria Velasquez; Francisco Arizaga, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General; Doris Meissner, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 30, 1997.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing January 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen W. Funk, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellants.

Peter A. Schey, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, California, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: SCHROEDER, ALARCON, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.


As Amended on Denial of Rehearing En Banc January 16, 1998.

PER CURIAM Opinion; Dissent by Judge SCHROEDER.

PER CURIAM.

This class action litigation challenges the lawfulness of an Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") policy adopted in 1986 and revised in 1987 as part of the INS's administration of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, 8 U.S.C. § 1255a ("IRCA"). That statute established a legalization program under which certain...

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