United States First Circuit

Where plaintiffs sued the INS alleging that petitions under 8 USC 1154 were not being processed, and INS subsequently processed the petitions, the action is moot even if it had been intended as a class action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2001
• Published 06/12/2001

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Cristóbal Bonifaz, with whom John C. Bonifaz and Law Offices of Cristóbal Bonifaz were on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Papu Sandhu, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Dep't of Justice, with whom Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for appellee.