United States Fifth Circuit

An action challenging the INS's reliance on confidential information, in reviewing applications for naturalization, was properly dismissed where none of the class representatives had been denied citizenship after exhausting the statutorily mandated review process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/15/2002
• Published 08/15/2002

Judges

• GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, DEMOSS and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Sheldon Fischer, Nacogdoches, TX, Mary A. Kenney, Carmen Ilene Garcia, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, San Antonio, TX, Barbara Hines (argued), Law Office of Barbara Hines, Austin, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nelda C. Reyna (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div. Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, John Francis Paniszczyn, San Antonio, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.