Kazarian

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

POGHOS KAZARIAN, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 07-56774 US CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION  D.C. No.

CV-07-03522-R-E

SERVICES, a Bureau of the Department of Homeland Security; OPINION DOES, 1 through 10, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Manuel L. Real, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 9, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed September 4, 2009

Before: Harry Pregerson, Dorothy W. Nelson and David R. Thompson, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge D.W. Nelson; Dissent by Judge Pregerson

12411 KAZARIAN v. USCIS 12413

COUNSEL

Ruben N. Sarkisian, Glendale, California, for the plaintiff- appellant Poghos Kazarian. 12414 KAZARIAN v. USCIS Craig W. Kuhn and Elizabeth J. Stevens, Office of Immigra- tion Litigation, Department of Justice, Washington D.C.; for the defendant-appellee U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Ser- vices.

OPINION

D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Poghos Kazarian appeals the District Court’s grant of…