UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Hossein AFSHARI, aka Hosseini Deklami; Mohammad Omidvar; Hassan Rezaie; Roya Rahmani, aka Sister Tahmineh; Navid Taj, aka Najaf Eshkoftegi; Mustafa Ahmady; Alireza Mohamad Moradi, Defendants-Appellees.
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Inc; The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Amici Curaie.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted September 9, 2003.
Filed June 17, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Douglas N. Letter, Yoel Tobin, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Ronald L. Cheng, ULSA-Office of the U.S. Attorney, Crim.Div., Los Angeles, CA, for the appellant.
Stephen P. Berzon, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, Abbe David Lowell, Sarah Loope, Chadbourne & Park LLP, Washington D.C., Sam Puathasnanon, Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, Jack DiCanio, Anthony Pacheco, Proskauer Rose, LLP, Los Angeles CA, for Roya Rahmani.
Richard Steingard, Los Angeles, CA, for Mustafa Ahmady.
Nadine C. Hettle, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for Hossein Afshari.
David R. Evans, Law Offices of David R. Evans, Pasadena, CA, for Alireza Mohammadmoradi.
Michael J. Treman, Santa Barbara, CA, for Mohammad Omidvar.
David R. Reed, Law Office of David R. Reed, Los Angeles, CA, for Navid Taj.
Yolanda Barrera, Law office of Yolanda Barrera, for Hassan Rezaie.
Margaret C. Crosby, San Francisco, CA, George C. Harris, Somnath Rah Chatterjee, Morrison and Foester, LLP, Ephraim Margolin, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae.
Before: KLEINFELD, WARDLAW, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge.
We review the constitutionality of a statute prohibiting financial support to organizations designated as "terrorist."
Facts
The issue here is the constitutionality of the crime charged in the indictment, that from 1997 to 2001, Rahmani and others knowingly and willfully conspired to provide material support to the Mujahedin-e Khalq ("MEK"),1 a designated terrorist organization, in violation...
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