MENDIA v. GARCIA

Nos. 16-15742, 16-16184.

874 F.3d 1118 (2017)

Bernardo MENDIA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John M. GARCIA; Ching Chang, Defendants-Appellants, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 3, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Aguilar (argued) and H. Thomas Byron III , Appellate Staff; Brian Stretch , United States Attorney; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

David R. Williams (argued), Ann M. Koppuzha , and Michael J. Shepard , Hogan Lovells US LLP, San Francisco, California, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges, and Robert H. Whaley, District Judge.


OPINION

Bernardo Mendia, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was detained in county jail when Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") agents John Garcia and Ching Chang lodged an immigration detainer placing a federal hold to pick him up when state authorities were ready to release him. Mendia sued Garcia, Chang, and...

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