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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
JENNY LISETTE FLORES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Attorney General of the United States; JEH JOHNSON, Secretary of Homeland Security; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, and its subordinate entities; U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT; U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 15-56434 D.C. No. 2:85-cv-04544- DMG-AGR
OPINION Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Dolly M. Gee, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted June 7, 2016 Pasadena, California Filed July 6, 2016 2 FLORES V. LYNCH Before: Ronald M. Gould, Michael J. Melloy*, and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge Hurwitz
SUMMARY** Immigration
The panel affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s order granting the motion of a plaintiff class to enforce a 1997 Settlement with the government which set a nationwide policy for the detention, release, and treatment of minors detained in Immigration and Naturalization Service custody, and remanded for further proceedings.
The panel held that the Settlement unambiguously applies both to minors who are accompanied and unaccompanied by their parents. The panel held, however, that the district court erred in interpreting the Settlement to provide release rights to accompanying adults. The panel also held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the government’s motion to amend the Settlement