Rivas Rosales v. Barr

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOSE GABRIEL RIVAS ROSALES, et al., Case No. 20-cv-00888-EMC

Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS’

MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY

v. INJUNCTION, AND DENYING

PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR

WILLIAM P. BARR, et al., JUDICIAL NOTICE Defendants. Docket Nos. 4,

12 13 I. INTRODUCTION Petitioners, Jose Gabriel Rivas Rosales, Reyna Romero Lopez, and their minor child E.R.R. (hereinafter, collectively, “Petitioners”), seek a preliminary injunction staying the use of Video Teleconferencing (“VTC”) in their asylum case now before an Immigration Judge,1 pending a decision on their petition to this Court for a Writ of Mandamus. That Writ asks that this Court “enjoin Respondents from utilizing Video-Teleconference . . . against the non-detained Petitioners.” Respondents, William P. Barr and James McHenry, are being sued in their official capacities as the Attorney General of the Department of Justice…