Publication Date: 2012-09-26
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Date Filed: 2012-09-26
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: James V. Selna, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Harry Pregerson, M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher, Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, Richard A. Paez, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nancy Ellen Miller (argued), Reeves & Associates, APLC, Pasadena, California; Amy Prokop and Carl Shusterman (argued), Law Offices of Carl M. Shusterman, Los Angeles, California, for plaintiff-appellant Rosalina Cuellar de Osorio.
Amy Prokop and Carl Shusterman, Law Offices of Carl M. Shusterman, Los Angeles, California, for plaintiffs-appellants
Elizabeth Magpantay, Evelyn Y. Santos, Maria Eloisa Liwag, Norma Uy, and Ruth Uy.
Anthony James Favero and Robert L. Reeves, Reeves & Associates, APLC, Pasadena, California for plaintiffs-appellants Teresita G. Costelo and Lorenzo P. Ong.
for defendant: Elizabeth J. Stevens, Gisela Ann Westwater (argued), and Aaron D. Nelson, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.
Mary Kenney, American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae American Immigration Council and American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Nickolas A. Kacprowski, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae American Immigration Council and National Immigrant Justice Center.
Deborah Susan Smith, Law Office of Deborah S. Smith, Helena, Montana, for amici curiae American Immigration Lawyers Association and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Thomas Kirk Ragland, Benach Ragland LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Active Dreams LLC.
Case Number: No. 09-56786, No. 09-56846
Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 11069ROSALINA CUELLAR DE OSORIO; ELIZABETH MAGPANTAY; EVELYN Y. SANTOS; MARIA ELOISA LIWAG; NORMA UY; RUTH UY, Plaintiffs-Appella