United States Ninth Circuit

In an action seeking a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of plaintiff and a class of aliens detained for more than six months without a bond hearing while engaged in immigration proceedings, a denial of class certification is reversed where: 1) 8 U.S.C. section 1252(f) did not bar the proposed class from receiving injunctive relief; and 2) the constitutional issue at the heart of each class member's claim for relief is common to all proposed class members.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/05/2009
• Decided 08/20/2009
• Published 08/20/2009

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before:  B. FLETCHER, RAYMOND C. FISHER and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter J. Eliasberg and Ahilan T. Arulanantham (argued), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;  Judy Rabinowitz and Cecillia D. Wang, American Civil Liberties Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA;  Jayashri Srikantiah, Stanford Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Stanford, CA;  and Steven A. Ellis, William Tran, and Brian K. Washington, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory G. Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division;  David J. Kline, Director, District Court Section;  Gjon Juncaj (argued), Senior Litigation Counsel;  and Nancy N. Safavi, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondents-appellees.