Question #12: To speak of another amnesty situation, is it true that CSS and LULAC will be heard by judges this month? And how would the new amnesty affect those cases?

Carl Shusterman: On March 20, two weeks from today, an en banc panel of eleven judges from the US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, will hear arguments in San Francisco in the Catholic Social Services (CSS) case. Last year, a three judge panel of the same Court ruled in a 2-1 decision that Congress, by enacting Section 377 of the 1996 immigration law, had foreclosed the possibility of the CSS late amnesty filers from challenging the denial of their claims in Federal Court. For more information about CSS, LULAC and the other late amnesty cases, see:

Shusterman: http://shusterman.com/toc-amnesty.html


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