STATE v. TRUMP

No. 17-16426.

871 F.3d 646 (2017)

STATE of Hawaii; Ismail Elshikh, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Donald J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; John F. Kelly, in his official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security; U.S. Department of State; Rex W. Tillerson, in his official capacity as Secretary of State; United States of America, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

September 7, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey B. Wall , Acting Solicitor General; Edwin S. Kneedler , Deputy Solicitor General; Chad A. Readier , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Elliot Enoki , Acting United States Attorney; Hashim M. Mooppan , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Douglas N. Letter , Sharon Swingle , H. Thomas Byron III , and Lowell V. Sturgill Jr. , Attorneys, Appellate Staff; Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Neal Kumar Katyal , Colleen Roh Sinzdak , Mitchell P. Reich , and Elizabeth Hagerty , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C.; Thomas P. Schmidt , Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, New York; Sara Solow and Alexander B. Bowerman , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Douglas S. Chin , Attorney General; Clyde J. Wadsworth , Solicitor General; Deirdre Marie-Iha , Donna H. Kalama , Kimberly T. Guidry , and Robert T. Nakatsuji , Deputy Attorneys General; Department of the Attorney General, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Michael Price and Faiza Patel , Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, New York, New York; Lena F. Masri , Gadeir I. Abbas , Council on American-Islamic Relations, Washington, D.C.; Jethro Eisenstein , Profeta & Eisenstein, New York, New York; for Amici Curiae Adam Soltani, Asma Elhuni, Hassan Shibly, and Basim Elkarra.

Jonathan M. Freiman and Tahlia Townsend , Wiggin and Dana LLP, New Haven, Connecticut; Harold Hongju Koh and Hope Metcalf , Rule of Law Clinic, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; for Amici Curiae Former National Security Officials.

G. Eric Brunstad, Jr. , Dechert LLP, Hartford, Connecticut; for Amicus Curiae Human Rights First.

Robert A. Wiygul and Mark A. Aronchick , Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; for Amici Curiae Law Professors.

Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, Anisha S. Dasgupta , Deputy Solicitor General, Zainab A. Chaudhry , Assistant Solicitor General, Eric T. Schneiderman , Attorney General, State of New York; for Amici Curiae States of New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Omar C. Jadwat , Lee Gelernt , Hina Shamsi , Hugh Handeyside , Sarah L. Mehta , Spencer E. Amdur , and David K. Hausman , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Karen C. Tumlin , Nicholas Espiritu , Melissa S. Keaney , and Ester Sung , National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, California; Justin B. Cox , National Immigration Law Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Cecilia D. Wang and Cody H. Wofsy , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, San Francisco, California; Mateo Caballero , ACLU of Hawaii Foundation, Honolulu, Hawaii; Mariko Hirose , Rebecca Heller , and Mark Wasef , International Refugee Assistance Project, New York, New York; David Cole , Daniel Mach , and Heather L. Weaver , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae International Refugee Assistance Project and HIAS, Inc.

James C. Martin , Donna M. Doblick , and Devin M. Misour , Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Jayne Fleming , Reed Smith LLP, New York, New York; for Amicus Curiae U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.

Before: Michael Daly Hawkins, Ronald M. Gould, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

We are asked to review the district court's modified preliminary injunction, which enjoins the Government from enforcing Executive Order 13780 against (1) grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of persons in the United States; and (2) refugees who have formal...

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