RODRIGUEZ v. JENNINGS

Nos. 13-56706, 13-56755.

887 F.3d 954 (2018)

Alejandro RODRIGUEZ, for himself and on behalf of a class of similarly-situated individuals; Abdirizak Aden Farah, for himself and on behalf of a class of similarly-situated individuals; Jose Farias Cornejo; Yussuf Abdikadir; Abel Perez Ruelas, Petitioners-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, and Efren Orozco, Petitioner, v. David JENNINGS, Field Office Director, Los Angeles District, Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary, Homeland Security; Jefferson B. Sessions III, Attorney General; Wesley Lee, Assistant Field Office Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Rodney Penner, Captain, Mira Loma Detention Center; Sandra Hutchens, Sheriff of Orange County; Nguyen, Officer, Officer-in-Charge, Theo Lacy Facility; Davis Nighswonger, Captain, Commander, Theo Lacy Facility; Mike Kreuger, Captain, Operations Manager, James A. Musick Facility; Arthur Edwards, Officer-in-Charge, Santa Ana City Jail; Russell Davis, Jail Administrator, Santa Ana City Jail; James McHenry, Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 12, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah Stevens Wilson (argued), Theodore William Atkinson , Hans Harris Chen , Alisa Beth Klein , Robert I. Lester , Jaynie R. Lilley , Benjamin C. Mizer , Nicole Prairie , and Erez Reuveni , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Ahilan Thevanesan Arulanantham , Michael Kaufman , Peter Jay Eliasberg , ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Judy Rabinovitz and Michael K.T. Tan , ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; Cecillia D. Wang , ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Jayashri Srikantiah , Stanford Law School Mills Legal Clinic, Stanford, California; Sean Ashley Commons and Wen Shen , Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, California; Steven Andrew Ellis , Goodwin Procter LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Petitioners-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Nina Rabin , University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, for Amici Curiae Social Science Researchers and Professors.

James H. Moon , James J. Farrell , Nathan M. Saper , Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.

Sarah H. Paoletti , University of Pennsylvania Law School Transnational Legal Clinic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Amici Curiae International Law Professors and Human Rights Clinicians and Clinical Programs.

Holly Stafford Cooper , University of California Davis Law School Immigration Law Clinic, Davis, California, for Amicus Curiae University of California Davis Law School Immigration Law Clinic.

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Sam E. Haddon, District Judge.


ORDER

The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs addressing the following procedural questions: (1) whether this Court has jurisdiction over petitioners' constitutional claims despite 8 U.S.C. § 1252(f)(1), and if not, whether the Court may nonetheless issue declaratory relief for the Rule 23(b)(2) class; (2) whether a Rule 23(b)(2) class action continues to be the appropriate vehicle for petitioners' claims...

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