CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO v. BARR

Nos. 18-17308, 18-17311.

965 F.3d 753 (2020)

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General; Alan R. Hanson; United States Department of Justice; Matt M. Dummermuth, Defendants-Appellants. State of California, ex rel. Xavier Becerra, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of California, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William P. Barr, Attorney General; Alan R. Hanson; United States Department of Justice; Matt M. Dummermuth; Phil E. Keith, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 13, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark B. Stern (argued), Daniel Tenny , Katherine Twomey Allen , Brad Hinshelwood , and Laura E. Myron , Appellate Staff; Hashim M. Mooppan , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; David L. Anderson , United States Attorney; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Aileen M. McGrath (argued), Jesse C. Smith , Ronald P. Flynn , Yvonne R. Mere , Tara M. Steeley and Sara J. Eisenberg , Deputy City Attorneys; Dennis J. Herrera , City Attorney; Office of the City Attorney, San Francisco, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee City and County of San Francisco.

Joshua A. Klein (argued), Deputy Solicitor General; Kristin A. Liska , Associate Deputy Solicitor General; Lee Sherman , Deputy Attorney General; Sarah E. Belton , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Michael L. Newman , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Edward C. DuMont , Solicitor General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General; Oakland, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee State of California.

Matthew J. Piers , Chirag G. Badlani , and Caryn C. Lederer , Hughes Socol Peters Piers Resnick & Dym Ltd., Chicago, Illinois; Mary B. McCord , Joshua A. Geltzer , Nicolas Y. Riley , and Daniel B. Rice , Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Current and Former Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Leaders.

Elizabeth B. Wydra , Brianne J. Gorod , and David H. Gans , Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Members of Congress.

James R. Williams , County Counsel; Greta S. Hansen , Chief Assistant County Counsel; Kavita Narayan and Laura S. Trice , Lead Deputy County Counsel; H. Luke Edwards , Fellow; Office of the County Counsel, County of Santa Clara, San Jose, California; for Amici Curiae 43 Counties, Cities, and Municipal Agencies; National League of Cities; International Municipal Lawyers Association; and International City/County Management Association.

Robert W. Perrin , Sarah F. Mitchell , and Michael A. Hale , Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae Anti-Defamation League.

Rachel S. Brass , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, California; Abiel Garcia and Ian F. Sprague , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Amicus Curiae Public Counsel.

Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General; Anisha S. Dasgupta , Deputy Solicitor General; Eric R. Haren , Special Counsel; Linda Fang , Assistant Solicitor General of Counsel; Letitia James , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, New York, New York; Phil Weiser Attorney General, Denver, Colorado; William Tong , Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut; Kathleen Jennings , Attorney General, Wilmington, Delaware; Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, Chicago, Illinois; 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; Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General, Trenton, New Jersey; Hector Balderas , Attorney General, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General, Salem, Oregon; Peter F. Neronha , Attorney General, Providence, Rhode Island; Thomas J. Donovan, Jr. , Attorney General, Montpelier, Vermont; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General, Olympia, Washington; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae States of New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Omar C. Jadwat and Lee Gelernt , American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York; Spencer E. Amdur and Cody H. Wofsy , American Civil Liberties Union, San Francisco, California; Mark Fleming and Katherine E. Melloy Goettel , National Immigrant Justice Center, Chicago, Illinois; for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, National Immigrant Justice Center, National Immigration Law Center, Washington Defender Association, Southern Poverty Law Center, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, and New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice.

W. Hardy Callcott , Naomi A. Igra , and Mark Prior , Sidley Austin LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus.

Before: William A. Fletcher, Richard R. Clifton, and Eric D. Miller, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

The federal government has provided funding for state and local criminal justice programs through Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants since 2006. In Fiscal Year ("FY") 2017, the Attorney General and the Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced three new...

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