Kwai Fun Wong v. United States

373 F.3d 952 KWAI FUN WONG; Wu-Wei Tien Tao Association, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Immigration and Naturalization Service, being sued as David V. Beebe, Jerry F. Garcia, Jack O'Brien, Douglas Glover and John Doe INS Officials; United States of America, Defendants-Appellants. No. 02-35727. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 10, 2003. Filed June 25, 2004. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Anne Murphy, Assistant United States Attorney, Civil Division, Office of the Attorney General, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellants. Zan Tewksbury, Steenson, Schumann, Tewksbury & Rose, P.C., Portland, OR, for the plaintiffs-appellees. Steven A. Hirsch, Keker & Van Nest, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the amicus curiae in support of plaintiffs-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon; Robert E. Jones, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-01-00718-REJ(JMS). Before: GOODWIN, HUG, and BERZON, Circuit Judges. BERZON, Circuit Judge: 1 This appeal presents a set of thorny procedural and substantive questions implicating several areas of…