Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Scott Grant Stewart (argued), Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Francesca Genova and T. Benton York , Trial Attorneys; Erez Reuveni , Assistant Director; William C. Peachey , Director; August E. Flentje , Special Counsel; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.
Lee P. Gelernt (argued), Judy Rabinovitz , Omar C. Jadwat , Anand Balakrishnan , Daniel Galindo , and Celso Perez , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; Jennifer Chang Newell , Cody Wofsy , Spencer Amdur , and Julie Veroff , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Melissa Crow , Southern Poverty Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Mary Bauer , Southern Poverty Law Center, Charlottesville, Virginia; Gracie Willis , Southern Poverty Law Center, Decatur, Georgia; Baher Azmy , Angelo Guisado , and Ghita Schwarz , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York; Christine P. Sun and Vasudha Talla , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc., San Francisco, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Lawrence J. Joseph , Washington, D.C.; Christopher J. Hajec , Director of Litigation, Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Immigration Reform Law Institute.
Patrick W. Pearsall , Karthik P. Reddy , and Vaishalee V. Yeldandi , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alice Farmer , Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Richard D. Bernstein , Washington, D.C.; Richard Mancino , Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, New York; for Amici Curiae Peter Keisler, Stuart Gerson, Carter Phillips, John Bellinger III, Samuel Witten, Ray Lahood, Brackett Denniston, Stanley Twardy, and Richard Bernstein.
Alan E. Schoenfeld , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York; Alex Gazikas , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Peter S. Margulies , Bristol, Rhode Island; Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia , University Park, Pennsylvania; for Amici Curiae Professors of Immigration Law.
Margaret L. Carter , Dmitiri D. Portnoi , and Daniel R. Suvor , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California; Barbara J. Parker , City Attorney; Maria Bee , Erin Bernstein , Malia McPherson , Zarah Rahman , and Suzanne Dershowitz ; Office of the City Attorney Oakland, California; Edward N. Siskel , Corporation Counsel, City of Chicago Department of Law, Chicago, Illinois; Zachary W. Carter , Corporation Counsel, New York City Law Department, New York, New York; for Amici Curiae 21 Counties, Cities, and Local Officials.
Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Michael L. Newman , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Christine Chuang , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Shubhra Shivpuri and James F. Zahradka II , Deputy Attorneys General; Office of the Attorney General, Oakland, California; Philip J. Weiser , Attorney General, Denver, Colorado; William Tong , Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut; Kathleen Jennings , Attorney General, Wilmington, Delaware; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; Clare E. Connors , Attorney General, Honolulu, Hawaii; Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, Chicago, Illinois; Tom Miller , Attorney General, Des Moines, Iowa; Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Maura Healey , Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Dana Nessel , Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan; Keith Ellison , Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; Aaron D. Ford , Attorney General, Carson City, Nevada; Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General, Trenton, New Jersey; Hector Balderas , Attorney General, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Letitia James , Attorney General, New York, New York; Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General, Salem, Oregon; Josh Shapiro , Attorney General, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Peter F. Neronha , Attorney General, Providence, Rhode Island; Thomas J. Donovan, Jr. , Attorney General, Montpelier, Vermont; Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General, Olympia, Washington; for Amici Curiae California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.
Concurrence by Judge Fernandez.
