Opinion
Nos. 09–56786 09–56846.
2012-04-20
Rosalina CUELLAR DE OSORIO; Elizabeth Magpantay; Evelyn Y. Santos; Maria Eloisa Liwag; Norma Uy; Ruth Uy, Plaintiffs–Appellants, v. Alejandro MAYORKAS, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Defendants–Appellees.Teresita G. Costelo; Lorenzo P. Ong, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs–Appellants, v. Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Alejandro Mayorkas, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Lynne Skeirik, Director, National Visa Center; Christina Poulos, Acting Director, California Service Center, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Defendants–Appellees.
Nancy Ellen Miller, Esquire, Reeves & Associates, APLC, Pasadena, CA, Amy Prokop, Carl Shusterman, Law Offices of Carl M. Shusterman, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs–Appellants. Aaron Nelson, Trial, DOJ–U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants–Appellees.
Nancy Ellen Miller, Esquire, Reeves & Associates, APLC, Pasadena, CA, Amy Prokop, Carl Shusterman, Law Offices of Carl M. Shusterman, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs–Appellants. Aaron Nelson, Trial, DOJ–U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants–Appellees. Mary A. Kenney, American Immigration Law Foundation, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.Anthony J. Favero, Robert L. Reeves, Esquire, Reeves & Associates, APLC, Pasadena, CA, Jeremiah Johnson, Johnson & McDermed, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs–Appellants Teresita G. Costelo and Lorenzo P. Ong.Elizabeth J. Stevens, Assistant Director, Gisela Ann Westwater, Trial, Aaron Nelson, Trial, DOJ–U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants–Appellees.D.C. Nos. 5:08–cv–00840–JVS–SH, 8:08–cv–00688–JVS–SH.
ORDER
KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:
Upon the vote of a majority of nonrecused active judges, it is ordered that this case be reheard en banc pursuant to Circuit Rule 35–3. The three-judge panel opinion shall not be cited as precedent by or to any court of the Ninth Circuit.