FLORES v. SESSIONS

No. 17-55208.

862 F.3d 863 (2017)

Jenny Lisette FLORES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General; Thomas E. Price, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services; John Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 5, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holly Stafford Cooper, Esquire , UC Davis School of Law, Davis, CA, Carlos R. Holguin , Peter Anthony Schey, Esquires , Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, CA, Kyra Kazantzis, Esquire, Attorney, Public Interest Law Firm, Annette Kirkham , Senior Attorney, Katherine Haas Manning , Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA, Steven H. Schulman , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC, Virginia Corrigan, Youth Law Center, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Vinita Andrapalliyal , Sarah Fabian , Trial Attorney, August E. Flentje , DOJ — U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Jack Williford Londen , Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Youth Advocacy Organizations.

Stephen B. Kang , ACLU Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and ACLU of Southern California.

Austin Manes , Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Menlo Park, CA, for Amici Curiae SAFE Passage Project Clinical Course at New York Law School and 23 Professors in Law School Clinics and Clinical Courses Throughout the United States Who Represent Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth.

Before: Reinhardt, Tashima, and Berzon, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

In this case we apply the straightforward tools of statutory construction in order to determine what the statutes before us are designed to do and not do. In performing this task we, of course, start by examining the words of the statutes. We then look to the statutes' clear purpose and intent. Specifically...

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