American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee v. Meese

Plaintiffs Khader Musa Hamide and Michel Ibrahim Shehadeh (“Hamide and She-hadeh”); Bashar Amer, Ayman Mustafa Obeid, Julie Nuangugi Mungai, Aiad Kha-led Barakat, Naim Nadim Sharif, Amjad Mustafa Obeid (“Other Six”); American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Arab-American Democratic Federation, Association of Arab American University-Graduates, Irish National Caucus, Palestine Human Rights Campaign, American Friends Service Committee, League of United Latin American Citizens, Michel Bo-gopolsky, Darrel Meyers, and Southern California Interfaith Task Force on Central America (“Organizational Plaintiffs”) move the Court for summary judgment and for declaratory and injunctive relief. They challenge the constitutionality of Sections 241(a)(6)(D), (F)(iii), (G)(v), and (H) of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, (“McCarran-Walter provisions”), codified in 8 U.S. C. §§ 1251(a)(6)(D), (F)(iii), (G)(v), and (H) and of Sections 901(a) and 901(b) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (“FRAA”), Pub.L. No. 100-204, § 901 , 101 Stat. 1331 , 1399 (1987) (amended October 1, 1988).

Defendants Edwin Meese, III, Alan Nelson, Harold Ezell, Ernest Gustafson, and the…