NWAUZOR v. GEO GROUP, INC.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael W. Kirk (argued), Charles J. Cooper , J. Joel Alicea , Joseph O. Masterman , and Tiernan B. Kane , Cooper and Kirk PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellant.

Jennifer D. Bennett (argued) and Neil K. Sawhney , Gupta Wessler PLLC, San Francisco, California; Gregory A. Beck , Gupta Wessler PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Jamal N. Whitehead , Adam J. Berger , Lindsay L. Halm , and Rebecca J. Roe , Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, Seattle, Washington; Robert Andrew Free , Law Office of R. Andrew Free, Atlanta, Georgia; Meena Pallipamu , Meena Pallipamu Immigration Law PLLC, Seattle, Washington; Devin T. Theriot-Orr , Open Sky Law PLLC, Kent, Washington; for Plaintiffs Appellees Ugochukwu Goodluck Nwauzor and Fernando Aguirre-Urbina.

Marsha J. Chien (argued), Andrea Brenneke , and Lane Polozola , Assistant Attorneys General; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General of Washington State; Office of the Washington State Attorney General; Seattle, Washington; for Plaintiff-Appellee State of Washington.

Christopher J. Hajec and Gina M. D'Andrea , Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Immigration Reform Law Institute.

Catherine K. Ruckelshaus , National Employment Law Project, New York, New York, for Amicus Curiae National Employment Law Project Inc.

Kwi "Kat" Choi and Robin L. Goldfaden , Deputy Attorneys General; Vilma R. Palma-Solana and Marisa Hernandez-Stern , Supervising Deputy Attorneys General; Michael L. Newman and Satoshi Yanai , Senior Assistant Attorneys General; Rob Bonta , Attorney General of California; California Department of Justice; Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae the States of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont and the District of Columbia.

Hannah Woerner , Columbia Legal Services, Olympia, Washington; Jeremiah Miller , Fair Work Center, Seattle, Washington; for Amici Curiae La Resistencia, Fair Work Center, and Prof. Angelina Snodgrass Godoy.

Eunice Hyunhye Cho , American Civil Liberties Union, National Prison Project, Washington, D.C.; Aditi Shah , American Civil Liberties Union, National Prison Project, New York, New York; for Amici Curiae the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Washington, and the National Immigrant Justice Center.

Matt Adams , Aaron Korthuis , Leila Kang , and Michael Hur , Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle, Washington, for Amicus Curiae the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.

Before: Mary H. Murguia, Chief Judge, and William A. Fletcher and Mark J. Bennett, Circuit Judges.