Schneider v. Chertoff

450 F.3d 944 Stefan SCHNEIDER; Anwar Tandar; Komsu Mamuya; Muhammad Aijaz Sattar; Sandeep Harbans Jain; Mahesh Krishnamoorthy; Saravanan Kasthuri; Bogdan Nedelescu, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Michael CHERTOFF, * Secretary of Homeland Security; Eduardo Aguirre, Jr., Acting Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services; Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Defendants-Appellees. No. 04-55689. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted December 5, 2005. Filed June 7, 2006. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Carl Shusterman, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs. Joanne S. Osinoff, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants. Trina A. Realmuto (briefed), Washington, D.C., for the American Immigration Law Foundation. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Dale S. Fischer, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-02-09228-DSF. Before HARRY PREGERSON, JOHN T. NOONAN, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges. PREGERSON, Circuit Judge. 1 Plaintiffs-Appellants Stefan Schneider, Anwar Tandar, Komsu Mamuya, and Saravanan Kasthuri ("Immigrant Doctors") are medical doctors…