CITY OF CHICAGO v. BARR

Nos. 18-2885 & 19-3290.

957 F.3d 772 (2020)

CITY OF CHICAGO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General of the United States, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

No. 19-3290 Submitted February 6, 2020.

Decided April 30, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Debo P. Adegbile , Attorney, Wilmer Hale LLP, New York, NY, Ari Holtzblatt , David W. Ogden , Jamie S. Gorelick , Molly Maureen Jennings , Tiffany Wright , Attorneys, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Laura Kleinman , Attorney, Robinson Curley, P.C., Chicago, IL, Benna Ruth Solomon , Justin A. Houppert , Attorneys, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, Matthew Charles Crowl , Ronald S. Safer , Attorneys, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee in 18-2885.

Brian C. Haussmann , Katherine O'Brien , Attorney, Tabet, Divito & Rothstein LLC, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff in 18-2885.

Katherine Twomey Allen , Hashim M. Mooppan , Mark B. Stern , Daniel Tenny , Bradley Hinshelwood , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, W. Scott Simpson , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Springfield, IL, for Defendant-Appellant in 18-2885.

Mark Steven Venezia , Attorney, Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Immigration Reform Law Institute.

R. Stanton Jones , Allison Gardner , Andrew Tutt , Attorneys, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Legal Historians.

Hannah Luke Edwards , Office of the County Counsel, County of Santa Clara, San Jose, CA, for Amicus Curiae County of Santa Clara, California.

Chirag Gopal Badlani , Attorney, Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae Current and Former Law Enforcement Leaders.

Charles A. Rothfeld , Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, Paul Whitfield Hughes , Attorney, McDermott, Will & Emery, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Law Professors.

Linda Fang , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae State of New York.

Spencer Elijah Wittmann Amdur , Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, National Immigrant Justice Center, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and Southern Poverty Law Center.

Elizabeth B. Wydra , Attorney, Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Members of Congress.

Harry Sandick , Attorney, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Administrative Law Scholars, Constitutional Law Scholars, and Immigration Law Scholars.

Paul A. Castiglione , Attorney, Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Federal Litigation Division, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae Cook County, Illinois.

Sheila Maureen Prendergast , Attorney, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, Chicago, IL, Ankur J. Goel , McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, Washington, DC, Niyati Shah , Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

John J. Hamill , Attorney, DLA Piper LLP (US), Chicago, IL, Chad I. Golder , Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Illinois Business Immigration Coalition.

Debo P. Adegbile , Attorney, Wilmer Hale LLP, New York, NY, Justin Baxenberg , Ari Evans , Jamie S. Gorelick , Ari Holtzblatt , Molly Maureen Jennings , David W. Ogden , Attorneys, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Justin A. Houppert , Benna Ruth Solomon , Attorneys, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee in 19-3290.

Bradley Hinshelwood , Daniel Tenny , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellant in 19-3290.

Spencer Elijah Wittmann Amdur , Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae in 19-3290.

Before Bauer, Manion, and Rovner, Circuit Judges.


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