EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT v. BARR

Nos. 19-16487, 19-16773.

964 F.3d 832 (2020)

EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT; Al Otro Lado; Innovation Law Lab; Central American Resource Center, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General; United States Department of Justice; James McHenry, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, in his official capacity; Executive Office for Immigration Review; Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, in his official capacity; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; L. Francis Cissna, Acting Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in his official capacity; Mark A. Morgan, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in his official capacity; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Matthew Albence, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in his official capacity; Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 6, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Lee Gelernt (argued), Omar C. Jadwat , and Anand Balakrishnan , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; Katrina Eiland , Cody Wofsy , Spencer Amdur , Julie Veroff , and Morgan Russell , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Melissa Crow , Southern Poverty Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Baher Azmy , Angelo Guisado , and Ghita Schwarz , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York; Vasudha Talla and Angélica Salceda , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc., San Francisco, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Alan E. Schoenfeld and Tara E. Levens , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York; Peter S. Margulies , Roger Williams University School of Law, Bristol, Rhode Island; Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia , University Park, Pennsylvania; for Amici Curiae Professors of Immigration Law.

Christopher J. Hajec , Director of Litigation, Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, D.C.; Lawrence J. Joseph , Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Immigration Reform Law Institute.

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Michael L. Newman , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Susan Slager , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Marissa Malouff and Erandi Zamora , Deputy Attorneys General; Attorney General's Office, Los Angeles, California; Maura Healey , Attorney General; David C. Kravitz , Deputy Solicitor General; Abigail B. Taylor , Chief, Civil Rights Division; Office of the Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Philip J. Weiser , Attorney General, Colorado; William Tong , Attorney General, Connecticut; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General, District of Columbia; Kathleen Jennings , Attorney General, Delaware; Clare E. Connors , Attorney General, Hawai`i; Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, Illinois; Aaron M. Frey , Attorney General, Maine; Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General, Maryland; Dana Nessel , Attorney General, Michigan; Keith Ellison , Attorney General, Minnesota; Aaron D. Ford , Attorney General, Nevada; Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General, New Jersey; Hector Balderas , Attorney General, New Mexico; Letitia James , Attorney General, New York; Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General, North Carolina; Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General, Oregon; Josh Shapiro , Attorney General, Pennsylania; Peter F. Neronha , Attorney General, Rhode Island; Thomas J. Donovan Jr. , Attorney General, Vermont; Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, Virginia; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General, Washington; for Amici Curiae States of California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai`i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Muhammad U. Faridi , Stephanie Teplin , and A. Robert Quirk , Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, New York, for Amicus Curiae National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council 119.

Barbara J. Parker , City Attorney; Maria Bee , Erin Bernstein , and Malia McPherson , Attorneys; Office of the City Attorney, Oakland, California; Margaret L. Carter and Daniel R. Suvor , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California; Anne L. Morgan , City Attorney, Austin, Texas; Andre M. Davis , City Solicitor, Law Department, Baltimore, Maryland; Eugene L. O'Flaherty , Corporation Counsel, Boston, Massachusetts; Mark A. Flessner , Corporation Counsel, Chicago, Illinois; Leslie J. Girard , Acting County Counsel, County of Monterey, Salinas, California; Marc P. Hansen , County Attorney, County of Montgomery, Rockville, Maryland; Georgia M. Pestana , Acting Corporation Counsel, New York, New York; Lyndsey M. Olson , City Attorney, St. Paul, Minnesota; Zach Klein , City Attorney, Columbus, Ohio; Kimberly M. Foxx , States Attorney, County of Cook, Chicago, Illinois; Christopher J. Caso , Interim City Attorney, Dallas, Texas; Angela Wheeler , City Attorney, Flint, Michigan; Dennis J. Herrera , City Attorney, San Francisco, California; James R. Williams , County Counsel, County of Santa Clara, San Jose, California; Erin K. McSherry , City Attorney, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Peter S. Holmes , City Attorney, Seattle, Washington; Eleanor M. Dilkes , City Attorney, Iowa City, Iowa; Michael N. Feuer , City Attorney, Los Angeles, California; Susan Segal , City Attorney, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Francis X. Wright Jr. , City Solicitor, Somerville, Massachusetts; William Fosbre , City Attorney, Tacoma, Washington; Michael Rankin , City Attorney, Tucson, Arizona; for Amici Curiae 24 Counties and Cities.

Blaine Bookey , Anne Peterson , Karen Musalo , and Kate Jastram , Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, U.C. Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae Non-Profit Organizations and Law School Clinics.

Alice Farmer , Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Washington, D.C.; Patrick W. Pearsall , Karthik P. Reddy , and Vaishalee V. Yeldandi , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Harold Hongju Koh , Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic, New Haven, Connecticut; Phillip Spector , Messing & Spector LLP, Baltimore, Maryland; for Amici Curiae Former National Security Officials.

Scott Shuchart , Kids in Need of Defense, Washington, D.C.; Ilissa S. Samplin and Jennafer Tryck , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California; Rachel S. Brass , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, California; for Amicus Curiae Kids in Need of Defense.

Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Miller


OPINION

On July 16, 2019, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security published a joint interim final Rule without notice and comment, entitled "Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications" (the "Rule"). With limited exceptions, the Rule categorically denies asylum to aliens arriving...

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