State of Arizona J. Fife Symington, Iii, Governor Eugene R. Moore, Director of Arizona Department of Youth Rehabilitation Samuel A. Lewis, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. United States of America Janet Reno, Attorney General Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service Alice Rivlin, Acting Director of Office of Management and Budget

104 F.3d 1095

STATE of ARIZONA; J. Fife Symington, III, Governor; Eugene
R. Moore, Director of Arizona Department of Youth
Rehabilitation; Samuel A. Lewis, Director, Arizona
Department of Corrections, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
UNITED STATES of America; Janet Reno, Attorney General;
Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization
Service; Alice Rivlin, Acting Director of Office of
Management and Budget, Defendants-Appellees.

No. 95-15980.

United States Court of Appeals,
Ninth Circuit.

Argued and Submitted June 12, 1996.
Decided Jan. 7, 1997.

1

Thomas J. Dennis, Assistant Attorney General, James R. Morrow, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for plaintiffs-appellants.

2

Mark B. Stern, Ellen D. Katz, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees.

3

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Stephen M. McNamee, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV 94-866 SMM.

4

Before: REINHARDT and HALL, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, Senior District Judge.*

5

MERHIGE, Senior District Judge.

6

For the reasons set forth in California v. United States, No. 95-55490, 104 F.3d 1086 (9 Cir.1997) decided this day, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

*

The Honorable Robert R. Merhige, Jr., Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation