ROMAN v. WOLF

No. 20-55436.

977 F.3d 935 (2020)

Kelvin Hernandez ROMAN; Beatriz Andrea Forero Chavez; Miguel Aguilar Estrada, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Petitioners-Appellees, v. Chad F. WOLF, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Tony H. Pham, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; David Marin, Director of the Los Angeles Field Office, Enforcement and Removal Operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; James Janecka, Warden, Adelanto ICE Processing Center, Defendants-Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 13, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott G. Stewart (argued), Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Hans H. Chen and Victor M. Mercado-Santana , Trial Attorneys; William K. Lane III , Counsel; Jeffrey S. Robins , Deputy Director; William C. Peachey , Director; Ethan P. Davis , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents-Appellants.

Samir Deger-Sen (argued), William M. Friedman , Margaret A. Upshaw , and James Tomberlin , Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, D.C.; Amanda Barnett and Jessie Cammack , Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, California; Ahilan Arulanantham , Michael Kaufman , Jessica Karp Bansal , and Michelle (Minju) Cho , ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; for Petitioners-Appellees.

Joshua A. Matz , Michael Skocpol , Mahrah M. Taufique , and Jacob Miller , Kaplan Hecker & Fink, New York, New York; Mark Rosenbaum , Judy London , Talia Inlender , Jesselyn Friley , and Amanda Savage , Public Counsel, Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae Nikolas Bowie, Erwin Chemerinsky, Michael Dorf, Leah Litman, Pamela S. Karlan, Amanda Shanor, David Strauss, Laurence H. Tribe, Stephen I. Vladeck, Ten Experts in Medicine and Public Health, and Physicians for Human Rights.

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

Genevieve Quinn , Seton Hartnett O'Brien , and Praatika Prasad , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, New York; David Debold , Caroline Ziser Smith , and Natasha Harnwell-Davis , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C.; Jacob Rierson , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Denver, Colorado; for Amici Curiae National Immigration Justice Center and Human Rights Watch.

Concurrence by Judge Miller.


OPINION

In this interlocutory appeal, the Government1 challenges a preliminary injunction entered by the district court in response to Plaintiffs' claims that conditions at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center ("Adelanto"), where they were detained, placed them at unconstitutional...

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