United States Ninth Circuit

In a challenge to INS policies in implementing the Immigration Control and Reform Act's legalization procedure, a second amended complaint was timely where it related back to the original, and plaintiffs who alleged that they filed a legalization application satisfy all jurisdictional requirements.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/24/2002
• Published 09/24/2002

Judges

• Before HUG, PREGERSON, and FERGUSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa M. Arnold, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, and Christopher Pickrell, Assistant United States Attorney, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-appellants., Robert Pauw, Gibbs, Houston & Pauw, Seattle, WA;  Peter Schey, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, CA;  and Michael Rubin, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Berzon and Rubin, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.