JACOBSON v. U.S. DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC.

No. 16-17199.

882 F.3d 878 (2018)

Leesa JACOBSON; Peter Ragan, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; United States Customs and Border Protection; United States Office of Border Patrol; Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Acting Secretary, United States Department of Homeland Security, in her official capacity; Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Commissioner, United States Customs & Border Protection, in his official capacity; Carla L. Provost, Acting Chief of the United States Border Patrol, in her official capacity; Jeffrey Self, Commander, Arizona Joint Field Command, in his official capacity; Manuel Padilla, Jr., Chief Patrol Agent-Tucson Sector, in his official capacity; Roger San-Martin, Agent in Charge-Tucson Border Patrol Station, in his official capacity; Lloyd Easterling, Assistant Agent in Charge-Tucson Border Patrol Station, in his official capacity; J. Joyner, Border Patrol Agent, in his official capacity; Rosalinda Huey, Border Patrol Agent, in her official capacity; N. Ballistrea, Border Patrol Agent, in her official capacity; S. Spencer, Border Patrol Agent, in his official capacity; K. Riden, Border Patrol Agent, in her official capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 13, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Winslow Taub (argued), Tracy Zinsou , Ethan Forrest , and Neha Jaganathan , Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, California; Kathleen E. Brody and Brenda Muñoz Furnish , ACLU Foundation of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona; Mitra Ebadolahi and David Loy , ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties, San Diego, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Patrick G. Nemeroff (argued) and Scott McIntosh , Appellate Staff; Elizabeth A. Strange , Acting United States Attorney; Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.

Eugene Volokh , Scott & Cyan Banister First Amendment Clinic, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California; Ilya Shapiro , Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae The Cato Institute.

Rochelle L. Wilcox , Taylor S. Ball , and John Parsi , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae National Press Photographers Association and The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc.

Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR., and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and JOHN D. BATES, District Judge.


OPINION

Leesa Jacobson and Peter Ragan (collectively, Appellants) filed this suit to challenge their exclusion from an enforcement zone set up around a Border Patrol checkpoint area near their homes in rural Arizona. Before any discovery occurred, the district court granted summary judgment to the Defendants-Appellees...

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