Iqbal

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Lailaa Iqbal, et al., No. 2:23-cv-01299-KJM-CSK. 12 Plaintiffs, ORDER 13 v. 14 Marco Rubio, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 17 In this action, plaintiffs Muhammad Hassan and Irsa Jamil allege the defendants—the 18 | Secretary of State’ and other federal officials, all named in their official capacities—have 19 | unreasonably delayed a decision on Jamil’s pending application for a visa to join Hassan, her 20 | spouse anda U.S. citizen, in the United States. See Prev. Order at 1, 5, 7, ECF No. 55. 21 | According to the complaint, Jamil is a Pakistani national. See Compl. § 18, ECF No. 1. The 22 | parties each move for reconsideration of certain aspects of this court’s prior order docketed at 23 | ECF No. 55. As explained below, those motions are denied. 24 | I. BACKGROUND 25 The court’s previous order denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment based on an 26 | analysis of the six-factor balancing test the Ninth…