HERNANDEZ v. SESSIONS

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherease Rosalyn Pratt , (argued), Joseph Hardy , and Adrienne Zack , Trial Attorneys; Colin A. Kisor , Deputy Director; William C. Peachey , Director; Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Michael Kaufman , (argued) and Ahilan T. Arulanantham , ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Michael Tan , and Judy Rabinovitz , ACLU Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; Stephen B. Kang , ACLU Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Matthew E. Sloan , Douglas A. Smith , Devon L. Hein , Matthew E. Delgado , Michael D. Hidalgo , and John C. Korevec , Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

John L. Ewald , Kelly M. Daley , Jasmine M. Owens , and Ned Hirschfeld , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, New York; Linda Klein , American Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois; for Amicus Curiae American Bar Association.

Alan E. Schoenfeld , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York; Leon T. Kenworthy , and Webb Lyons , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Nine Retired Immigration Judges and Board of Immigration Appeals Members.

Peter R. Afrasiabi , and Oscar M. Orozco-Botello , Newport Beach, California; Anne Lai , University of California, Irvine School of Law — Immigrant Rights Clinic, Irvine, California; for Amici Curiae University of California, Irvine School of Law — Immigrant Rights Clinic; Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Los Angeles; Brandeis Human Rights Advocacy Program; Center for Gender & Refugee Studies; Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking; Columbia Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic; Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto; Cornell Law School's Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic; Council on American-Islamic Relations; Immigrant Defenders Law Center, Los Angeles; Las Crisantemas; Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic; National Day Laborer Organizing Network; New York Law School, Safe Passage Project Clinical Class; Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; Public Counsel; Rapid Response Network; Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project; University of California Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic; University of California, Irvine School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic; University of Colorado Criminal/Immigration Defense Clinic; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Immigration Clinic; and Western State College of Law Immigration Clinic.

Peter H. Kang , Sidley Austin LLP, Palo Alto, California; Sue Wang , Kelly A. Rosencrans , and Alex Baxter , Sidley Austin LLP, San Francisco, California; Jayashri Srikantiah , Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California; for Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Center for Legal and Evidence-Based Practices.

Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Fernandez