U.S. v. HOVSEPIAN

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

422 F.3d 883 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Viken HOVSEPIAN; Viken Yacoubian, Defendants-Appellees. Viken Hovsepian, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. United States of America; Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Defendants-Appellants. Viken Hovsepian; Viken Yacoubian, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. United States of America; Alberto R. Gonzales,** Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 6, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Ashley Tabbador, Assistant United States Attorney; Debra W. Yang, United States Attorney; and Leon W. Weidman, Chief, Civil Division, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant and the defendants-appellants.

Barrett S. Litt, Litt, Estuar, Harrison, Miller & Kitson, LLP; Michael J. Lightfoot, Lightfoot, Vandevelde, Sadowsky, Medvene & Levine; and Mathew Millen, Law Offices of Mathew Millen, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees and the plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and D.W. NELSON, KLEINFELD, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, THOMAS, GRABER, McKEOWN, GOULD, PAEZ, BERZON, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.


Argued and Submitted En Banc June 23, 2005.

GRABER, Circuit Judge:

This case comes before the en banc court for the second time. The first time, in United States v. Hovsepian, 359 F.3d 1144, 1165-69 (9th Cir.2004) (en banc), we reversed the district court's decision to administer the oath of citizenship to Appellees Viken Hovsepian and Viken Yacoubian because of legal errors in the court's consideration of their applications...

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