Federal Case

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• finding mootness when INS issued decision on plaintiff=s naturalization application, despite agency=s delay until after statutory deadline and after complaint
• dismissing appeal of action brought under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b) for lack of jurisdiction due to naturalization of plaintiffs while action was pending
• finding no evidence that the defendants intended to avoid a class action where the last named plaintiff’s claim was not mooted until an appeal of summary judgment was pending before the Ninth Circuit
• finding no evidence that the defendants intended to avoid a class action where the last named plaintiffs claim was not mooted until an appeal of summary judgment was pending before the Ninth Circuit
• declining to apply the exception where the INS ruled on the plaintiffs’ applications for naturalization that the plaintiffs argued were illegally delayed because “[p]laintiffs have demonstrated no more than correlation; they have not shown causation”
• declining to apply the exception where the INS ruled on the plaintiffs’ applications for naturalization that the plaintiffs argued were illegally delayed because “[plaintiffs have demonstrated no more than correlation; they have not shown causation”

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