FLORES v. GARLAND

Nos. 20-55951, 20-56052.

3 F.4th 1145 (2021)

Jenny Lisette FLORES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General; Alejandro Mayorkas; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 30, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Bossert Clark , Acting Assistant Attorney General; August E. Flentje , Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General; William C. Peachey , Director; Willia C. Silvis , Assistant Director; Sarah B. Fabian and Nicole N. Murley , Senior Litigation Counsel; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Leecia Welch , Neha Desai , Poonam Juneja , Freya Pitts , and Melissa Adamson , National Center for Youth Law, Oakland, California; Carols R. Holguín , Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Christopher J. Hajec and Matt A. Crapo , Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Immigration Reform Law Institute.

Before: William A. Fletcher, Marsha S. Berzon, and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.


OPINION

In the latest iteration of this decades-long litigation, the district court issued two orders enforcing the consent decree incorporating the Flores Agreement. The orders enjoined the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") from detaining certain minors in hotels for more than a few days in the process...

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