SARAVIA FOR A.H. v. SESSIONS

No. 18-15114.

905 F.3d 1137 (2018)

Ilsa SARAVIA, as next friend FOR A.H., a minor, and on her own behalf; Lorenza Gomez, as next friend for A.H., a minor, and on her own behalf; Wilfredo Velasquez, as next friend for F.E., a minor, and on his own behalf, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General; James McHenry, Acting Director of the United States Executive Office for Immigration Review; Thomas E. Price, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States; Steven Wagner, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families; Scott Lloyd, Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the United States; Elicia Smith, Federal Field Specialist of the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the United States; Elaine C. Duke, Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States; Thomas Homan, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; James McCament, Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 1, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott G. Stewart (argued), Attorney; Sarah B. Fabian and Nicole N. Murley , Senior Litigation Counsel; William C. Silvis , Assistant Director; William C. Peachey , Director, District Court Section; Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Julia Harumi Mass (argued) and William S. Freeman , ACLU Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, California; Martin S. Schenker , Nathaniel R. Cooper , Kathlyn A. Querubin , and Trevor M. Kempner , Cooley LLP, San Francisco, California; Judy Rabinovitz , ACLU Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; Holly S. Cooper , Law Offices of Holly S. Cooper, Davis, California; Stephen B. Kang , ACLU Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: Michael Daly Hawkins, Carlos T. Bea, and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

This case involves noncitizen minors who entered the United States unaccompanied by a parent or guardian and were then placed in the custody of the United States Office of Refugee Resettlement ("ORR"). ORR subsequently released the plaintiffs to a parent or sponsor after concluding that each minor was not...

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