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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA YUVAL SHREM, et al ., ) CV 2:19-cv-00617-AB-SS ) Plaintiffs, ) JUDGMENT ) v. ) ) KATHY A. BARAN, sued in her ) official capacity as Director of U.S. ) Citizenship and Immigration ) Services, et al . )
) Defendants. ) ______________________________ )
UPON CONSIDERATION of the parties’ Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment (Dkt. Nos. 32, 35), oral argument on January 17, 2020, and for the reasons set forth in this Court’s Order Denying Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment [Dkt. No. 32] and Granting Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment [Dkt. No. 35], the Court enters the following Judgment resolving all claims:
WHEREAS this is an action under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”); WHEREAS, under the APA, an informal agency action may only be disturbed if it is found to be “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with the law.” See 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A);
WHEREAS a district may resolve at summary judgment a challenge to a final agency action under the APA. See Occidental Engineering Co. v. INS , 753 F.2d 766, 770 (9th Cir. 1985) (“[S]ummary judgment is an appropriate mechanism for deciding the legal question of whether the agency could reasonably have found the facts as it did.”);