Legal Opinion
Amanullah v. Nelson
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 4, 1987No. Nos. 86-1604, 86-1625 & 86-1635PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The petitioners in these consolidated appeals are four Afghanistanis who are currently being detained by the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) pending final resolution of exclusion proceedings against them. Having been denied parole from detention, they filed a total of three petitions for writs of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.1 These applications were assigned to different district judges, but with uniform results: each petition was summarily denied without an evidentiary hearing. Appeals were…
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