HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT v. U.S. TREASURY DEPT.

No. 07-55893.

578 F.3d 1133 (2009)

HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT; Ralph Fertig; Ilankai Thamil Sangam; Tamil Welfare and Human Rights Committee; World Tamil Coordinating Committee; Nagalingam Jeyalingam, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT; Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the OPINION Treasury; Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General; United States Department of Justice; Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State; United States Department of State, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 24, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Joshua Waldman, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C.; Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., (argued), for the defendants-appellees.

Opinion by Judge RYMER; Dissent by Judge PREGERSON.


RYMER, Circuit Judge:

We are asked to invalidate the President's authority to designate terrorist organizations when there is an extraordinary threat to national security, as well as the Secretary of the Treasury's authorization to designate further organizations; and to declare that a ban on providing "services" to, or for the benefit of, such organizations, is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad.

In the wake of September 11, 2001, President George W....

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