Rivas Rosales v. Barr
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 JOSE GABRIEL RIVAS ROSALES, et al., Case No. 20-cv-00888-EMC
8 Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS’
MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY
9 v. INJUNCTION, AND DENYING
PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR
10 WILLIAM P. BARR, et al., JUDICIAL NOTICE 11 Defendants. Docket Nos. 4, 24
12 13 14 I. INTRODUCTION 15 Petitioners, Jose Gabriel Rivas Rosales, Reyna Romero Lopez, and their minor child 16 E.R.R. (hereinafter, collectively, “Petitioners”), seek a preliminary injunction staying the use of 17 Video Teleconferencing (“VTC”) in their asylum case now before an Immigration Judge,1 pending 18 a decision on their petition to this Court for a Writ of Mandamus. That Writ asks that this Court 19 “enjoin Respondents from utilizing Video-Teleconference . . . against the non-detained 20 Petitioners.” 21 Respondents, William P. Barr and James McHenry, are being sued in their official 22 capacities as the Attorney General of the Department of Justice…