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U.S. v. HOVSEPIAN

Nos. 99-50041, 99-56922, 00-55320, 01-55247.

359 F.3d 1144 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Viken Hovsepian; Viken Yacoubian, Defendants-Appellees. Viken Hovsepian, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. United States Of America; John Ashcroft, Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Defendants-Appellants. Viken Hovsepian; Viken Yacoubian, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. United States Of America; John Ashcroft, Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 2, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jean Rosenbluth, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California; Lawrence E. Kole, Assistant United States Attorney, Santa Ana, California, for the plaintiff-appellant-defendants-appellants.

Michael J. Lightfoot, Talcott, Lightfoot, Vandevelde, Sadowsky, Medvene & Levine, Los Angeles, California; Paul J. Estuar and Barrett S. Litt, Litt & Marquez Associates, Los Angeles, California, Mathew L. Millen, Los Angeles, California, for the defendants-appellees-plaintiffs-appellees.

Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and DOROTHY W. NELSON, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, SUSAN P. GRABER, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD A. PAEZ, MARSHA S. BERZON, and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Argued and Submitted En Banc June 17, 2003 — San Francisco, California.

Opinion by Judge Graber.

OPINION

GRABER, Circuit Judge.

On August 18, 2000, the district court administered the oath of citizenship to Appellees Viken Hovsepian and Viken Yacoubian. That naturalization ceremony was the culmination of a 16-year struggle between Appellees and the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS"),1 which...

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