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FRAIHAT v. U.S. IMMIGRATION & CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT

No. 20-55634.

16 F.4th 613 (2021)

Faour Abdallah FRAIHAT; Marco Montoya Amaya; Raul Alcocer Chavez; Jose Segovia Benitez; Hamida Ali; Melvin Murillo Hernandez; Jimmy Sudney; Jose Baca Hernandez; Edilberto Garcia Guerrero; Martin Munoz; Luis Manuel Rodriguez Delgadillo; Ruben Dario Mencias Soto; Alex Hernandez; Aristoteles Sanchez Martinez; Sergio Salazar Artaga; Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice; Al Otro Lado, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Alejandro Mayorkas; Tae D. Johnson; Steve K. Francis; Corey A. Price; Patrick J. Lechleitner; Stewart D. Smith; Jacki Becker Klopp; David P. Pekoske, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 20, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott G. Stewart (argued), Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Anna L. Dichter and Lindsay M. Vick , Attorneys; William K. Lane III , Counsel; Christopher A. Bates , Senior 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 Defendants-Appellants.

Brian P. Goldman (argued), William F. Alderman , Mark Mermelstein , and Jake Routhier , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California; Matthew R. Shahabian and Melanie R. Hallums , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, New York; Katherine M. Kopp , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, D.C.; Timothy P. Fox and Elizabeth Jordan , Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, Denver, Colorado; Jared Davidson , Southern Poverty Law Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Stuart Seaborn , Melissa Riess , and Rosa Lee Bichell , Disability Rights Advocates, Berkeley, California; Maria del Pilar Gonzalez Morales , Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, Los Angeles, California; Shalini Goel Agarwal , Southern Poverty Law Center, Tallahassee, Florida; Christina Brandt-Young , Disability Rights Advocates, New York, New York; Michael W. Johnson , Dania Bardavid , Jessica Blanton , and Joseph Bretschneider , Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, New York; Leigh Coutoumanos , Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Washington, D.C.; Veronica Salama , Southern Poverty Law Center, Decatur, Georgia; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Stephen J. McIntyre , Marissa Roy , and Kevin Kraft , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California; Lisa B. Pensabene , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, New York; for Amici Curiae Casa de Paz, Church World Service—Jersey City, Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice, Detention Watch Network, El Refugio, and Freedom for Immigrants.

Clifford W. Berlow , Michele L. Slachetka , Jonathan A. Enfield , E.K. McWilliams , and Reanne Zheng , Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Amici Curiae Public Health Experts.

Dissent by Judge Berzon

OPINION

In March 2020, toward the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the plaintiffs in this case sought a preliminary injunction that would effectively place this country's network of immigration detention facilities under the direction of a single federal district court. The named plaintiffs were five detainees...

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