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ORANTES-HERNANDEZ v. SMITH

No. CV 82-1107-Kn.

541 F.Supp. 351 (1982)

Crosby Wilfredo ORANTES-HERNANDEZ; Organizacion De Profesionales Y Tecnicos Salvadorenos, Casa El Salvador-Farabundo Marti; Salvadoran American Professional Association; Concilio Manzo; Central American Refugee Program; El Rescate; Marta Ester Paniagua-Vides; Jose Sanchez Flores; Dora Alicia Ayala De Castillo; Adelso Salome Flores; Uvaldo Aguilar; Dora Elia Estrada; Juan Francisco Perez-Cruz; Jose Adilman Barahona; Ana Estela Guevarra-Flores; Maria Elena Molina; Candido Carcamo Marroquin; Delia Elizabeth Garcia-Quintanilla; Marta Osorio; Gloria De Flores; Jose Eduardo Rubio; Jose Francisco Marroquin-Salvador; Hugo Rugamas; Refugiados Uno through Cuatro, inclusive, Plaintiffs, v. William French SMITH, Attorney General of the United States; Immigration and Naturalization Service; Alexander Haig, Secretary of the United States Department of State; Edward O'Connor, Western Regional Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Defendants.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

June 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos Holguin, Timothy Barker, Peter A. Schey, Thomas H. Edwards, Janette Stokely, Dan Marmalefsky, Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson & Beardsley, Linton Joaquin, Los Angeles, Cal., Marc Van Der Hout, Mariam Hayward, Redwood City, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Lauri Filppu, Eugene M. Thirolf, Jr., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

KENYON, District Judge.

This action presents a nationwide challenge to certain practices and procedures allegedly employed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") in the detention, processing, and removal of Salvadoran nationals who have entered the United States. Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and a proposed class numbering in the thousands, claim that they fled political persecution, torture and death in El Salvador in the hope of finding refuge...

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