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INNOVATION LAW LAB v. WOLF

No. 19-15716.

951 F.3d 1073 (2020)

INNOVATION LAW LAB; Central American Resource Center of Northern California; Centro Legal De La Raza; University of San Francisco School of Law Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic; Al Otro Lado; Tahirih Justice Center, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Chad WOLF, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, in his official capacity; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, Acting Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in his official capacity; Andrew Davidson, Acting Chief of Asylum Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in his official capacity; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Todd C. Owen, Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in his official capacity; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Matthew T. Albence, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in his official capacity; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 28, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott G. Stewart (argued), Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Archith Ramkumar , Trial Attorney; Erez Reuveni , Assistant Director; William C. Peachey , Director; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Judy Rabinovitz (argued), Michael Tan , Omar Jadwat , Lee Gelernt , Anand Balakrishnan , and Daniel Galindo , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; Jennifer Chang Newell , Katrina Eiland , Cody Wofsy , 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; Michelle P. Gonzalez , Southern Poverty Law Center, Miami, Florida; Sean Riordan and Christine P. Sun , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc., San Francisco, California; Blaine Bookey , Karen Musalo , Eunice Lee , Kathryn Jastram , and Sayoni Maitra , Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, San Francisco, California; Steven Watt , ACLU Foundation Human Rights Program, New York, New York; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Adeel A. Mangi , Muhammad U. Faridi , Elizabeth Riordan Hurley , W. Robert Fair , and A. Robert Quirk , Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, New York, for Amicus Curiae Local 1924.

Alan E. Schoenfeld and Olga Musayev , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York; Julia Prochazka , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; Harold Hongju Koh , Rule of Law Clinic, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; for Amici Curiae Former U.S. Government Officials.

Xiao Wang , Rakesh Kilaru , Aleshadye Getachew , and Sophia Cooper , Wilkinson Walsh & Eskovitz LLP, Washington, D.C.; Chanakya A. Sethi , Wilkinson Walsh & Eskovitz LLP, New York, New York; for Amici Curiae Amnesty International USA, The Washington Office on Latin America, The Latin America Working Group, & Imumi.

Eleni Bakst , Human Rights First, New York, New York; W. Hardy Callcott , Naomi A. Igra , and Tom Magaña , Sidley Austin LLP, San Francisco, California; for Amicus Curiae Human Rights First.

Ana C. Reyes , Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alice Farmer , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae United Nations High Commissioner.

Dissent by Judge Fernandez.

OPINION

Plaintiffs brought suit in district court seeking an injunction against the Government's recently promulgated Migrant Protection Protocols ("MPP"), under which non-Mexican asylum seekers who present themselves at our southern border are required to wait in Mexico while their asylum applications are adjudicated...

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