HOPE v. WARDEN YORK COUNTY PRISON

No. 20-1784.

972 F.3d 310 (2020)

Aaron HOPE; Iwan Rahardja; Jesus de la Pena; Rakibu Adam; Duc Viet Lam; Yelena Mukhina; Nahom Gebretnisae; Ismail Muhammed; Glenn Weithers; Konstantin Bugarenko; Brisio Balderas-Dominguez; Viviana Ceballos; Wilders Paul; Marcos Javier Ortiz Matos; Alexander Alvarenga; Armando Avecilla; Coswin Ricardo Murray; Edwin Luis Crisostomo Rodriguez; Eldon Bernard Briette; Dembo Sannoh; Jesus Angel Juarez Pantoja; Alger Francois v. WARDEN YORK COUNTY PRISON; Warden Pike County Correctional Facility; Director Philadelphia Field Office Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Director United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Secretary United States Department of Homeland Security, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion filed: August 25, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Byerley , United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044, Jeffrey S. Robins , United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Room 6040, P.O. Box 878, Washington, DC 20044, Scott G. Stewart , [Argued] United States Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20530, Counsel for Appellants.

Lawrence J. Joseph , Suite 700-1A, 1250 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 200, Counsel for Amicus Immigration Reform Institute in favor of Appellants

Eunice H. Cho , David C. Fathi , American Civil Liberties Union, 915 15th St., N.W., 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20003, Carla G. Graff , Kelly A. Krellner , Dechert, 2929 Arch Street, 18th Floor, Cira Centre, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Stephen B. Kang , Cecillia D. Wang , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, 39 Drumm Street, San Francisco, CA 94111, Erika B. Nyborg-Burch , Vanessa Stine , Muneeda S. Talukder , American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, P.O. Box 60173, Philadelphia, PA 19106, Witold J. Walczak, Esq. , [Argued], American Civil Liberties Union, P.O. Box 23058, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Counsel for Appellees.

Kristin A. Macleod-Ball , American Immigration Counsel, 1318 Beacon Street, Suite 18, Brookline, MA 02446, Counsel for Amicus American Immigration Council in favor of Appellees.

Susanna M. Buergel , Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, Counsel for Amicus Robert L. Cohen, M.D., Joe Goldenson, M.D., Michael Puisis, D.O., and Brie Williams, M.D., M.S., in favor of Appellees.

Before: SMITH, Chief Judge, HARDIMAN and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

On April 7, 2020, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania ordered the immediate release of twenty-two immigration detainees (collectively, Petitioners) from the York County Prison (York) and Pike County Correctional Facility (Pike) amidst the COVID-19

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