Campos v. Nail

43 F.3d 1285 Maria Elena CAMPOS; Milton Cardenas Alvarado; Solomon Avala Lopez; Rene Blanco Lopez; Luis Alonzo Hernandez-Cruz; Manuel De Jesus Jaime-Garcia; Jose Fredy Ramirez-Sanchez; Mauricio Rosales-Hernandez; Justiniano Salcado-Machado; Fredy Sandoval-Mazariegos; Maria Antonio Vasquez-Cortez, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William F. NAIL, Jr.; Janet Reno, * Attorney General, Defendants-Appellants. No. 93-15119. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 6, 1994. Decided Dec. 30, 1994. Stewart Deutsch, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellants. Anne Pilsbury, Central American Legal Assistance, Brooklyn, NY, for plaintiffs-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Before: SNEED, SCHROEDER and CANBY, Circuit Judges. CANBY, Circuit Judge: 1 A class of aliens who sought political asylum brought this action in district court to challenge Immigration Judge William F. Nail, Jr.'s policy of denying changes of venue to asylum seekers who lacked a residence in the United States when originally detained. In a previous appeal, we held that the district court had jurisdiction to entertain the…