Zambrano v. Immigration And Naturalization Service

302 F.3d 909 Marta ZAMBRANO; Margarita Rodriguez; Graciela Lopez; Andrea Ruiz; Martha Ozuna; Jorge Perdoma, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; Edwin Meese; Alan Nelson, Defendants-Appellees. No. 00-16191. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted December 7, 2001. Filed March 7, 2002. Amended September 4, 2002. Richard M. Pearl, Berkeley, CA, for the appellants. William J. Howard and Antony W. Norwood, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California; Edward J. Garcia, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-88-00455-EJG. Before; HUG, D.W. NELSON, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges. 1 The Opinion filed March 7, 2002 is amended as follows: on slip opinion page 3832, last paragraph (that carries over to page 3833) [282 F.3d at 1152], change the paragraph to read: 2 The overall scheme of the new legislation reflects that by specifically making the repeal of § 377 retroactive to the date of the enactment of the IRCA, the statutory language was intended to remove a jurisdictional obstacle to litigation…