United States Ninth Circuit

Section 242(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by IIRIRA, 8 USCS 1252(g), does not limit a district court's jurisdiction to grant injunctive relief in class action where aliens are challenging INS's advance parole policy.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/20/2000
• Decided 11/21/2000
• Published 11/21/2000

Judges

• Before:  HUG, Chief Judge, BROWNING, REINHARDT, KOZINSKI, TROTT, FERNANDEZ, T.G. NELSON, HAWKINS, THOMAS, GRABER and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, California, for amicus American Immigration Lawyers Association., Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, amicus., Marc Van Der Hout, San Francisco, California, for amicus National Immigration Project, et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert M. Bombaugh,M. Jocelyn Wright, Keisha Dawn Bell, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellants-cross-appellees., Peter A. Schey, Carlos Holguin, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, California, Michael Rubin, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants.