Sandra Munoz v. United States Department of State
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SANDRA MUÑOZ and LUIS ERNESTO CASE NO. CV 17-0037 AS
ASENCIO-CORDERO,
12 Plaintiffs, MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER v. GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF
STATE, et al., FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT Defendants. 17 INTRODUCTION 19 On January 3, 2017, Sandra Muñoz and Luis Ernesto Asencio- Cordero filed a Complaint for Declaratory Relief against the U.S. Department of State (“DOS”); Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State; and Brendan O’Brien, the U.S. Consul General in San Salvador, El Salvador,1 challenging the denial of Asencio-Cordero’s 25 The Complaint originally named John F. Kerry as U.S. Secretary of State and Mark Leoni as U.S. Consul General. Antony Blinken, the current U.S. Secretary of State, and Brendan O’Brien, Consul General at the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, have been substituted for their predecessors. Fed.…