DREAM DEFENDERS v. GOVERNOR OF STATE OF FLORIDA

No. 21-13489.

57 F.4th 879 (2023)

DREAM DEFENDERS, Black Collective Inc., Chainless Change Inc., Black Lives Matter Alliance Broward, Florida State Conference of the NAACP, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, Sheriff of Jacksonville/Duval County Florida, Defendants-Appellants, Attorney General, State of Florida, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: January 10, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morenike Fajana , Rachel Kleinman , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Daniel Boaz Tilley , ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., Miami, FL, James E. Tysse , Miranda Alyssa Dore , Steven H. Schulman , Pratik A. Shah , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, Anne Morrill Evans , Erica Evette Holland , Joseph L. Sorkin , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, New York, NY, Berbeth S. Foster , Denise A. Ghartey , Alana J. Greer , Miriam Haskell , Community Justice Project, Inc., Florida, Miami, FL, Max H. Gaston , ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., Tampa, FL, Nicholas Edward Petree , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Houston, TX, Nicholas Warren , ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., Tallahassee, FL, Caroline Lewis Wolverton , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Dream Defenders, Black Collective Inc.

Jason Paul Bailey , NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Washington, DC, Morenike Fajana , Rachel Kleinman , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Daniel Boaz Tilley , ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., Miami, FL, James E. Tysse , Miranda Alyssa Dore , Steven H. Schulman , Pratik A. Shah , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, Anne Morrill Evans , Erica Evette Holland , Joseph L. Sorkin , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, New York, NY, Berbeth S. Foster , Denise A. Ghartey , Alana J. Greer , Miriam Haskell , Community Justice Project, Inc., Florida, Miami, FL, Max H. Gaston , ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., Tampa, FL, Nicholas Edward Petree , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Houston, TX, Nicholas Warren , ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., Tallahassee, FL, Caroline Lewis Wolverton , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Chainless Change Inc., Black Lives Matter Alliance Broward, Northside Coalition of Jacksonville.

Henry Charles Whitaker , Daniel William Bell , Karen Ann Brodeen , Anita J. Patel , Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Florida Attorney General Service, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Nicholas John Peter Meros , Ryan D. Newman , Emily C. Percival , James Uthmeier , Executive Office of the Governor, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendant-Appellant Governor of the State of Florida.

Sonya Harrell , Laura Boeckman , Mary Margaret Giannini , Helen Peacock Roberson , Jon Robert Phillips , Gabriella Young , Office of General Counsel, City of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, Helen Peacock Roberson , Bishop & Mills, PLLC, Jacksonville, FL, for Defendant-Appellant Mike Williams.

Noah Bokat-Lindell , U.S. Department of Justice, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States of America.

Shalini Goel Agarwal , Kristy Parker , Protect Democracy, Washington, DC, Christine Kwon , Protect Democracy, Los Angeles, CA, for Amicus Curiae Pen American Center, Inc.

Shalini Goel Agarwal , Kristy Parker , Protect Democracy, Washington, DC, Christine Kwon , Protect Democracy, Los Angeles, CA, Eric John Galvez Paredes , Protect Democracy, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Protect Democracy Project, Inc., Niskanen Center.

Before Jill Pryor, Branch, and Ed Carnes, Circuit Judges.


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