KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY v. UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES

No. 20-3837.

KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE, UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, Defendants-Appellants, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 6, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

CATHERINE CRUMP (Megan Graham, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA, Xiangnong Wang , Carrie DeCell , Alex Abdo , Jameel Jaffer , Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY, on the brief), Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

ELLEN BLAIN , Assistant United States Attorney ( Sarah S. Normand , Benjamin H. Torrance , Assistant United States Attorneys on the brief), for Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: JACOBS, RAGGI, and NARDINI,


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