CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI v. GOVERNOR

No. 21-13657.

65 F.4th 631 (2023)

CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, Plaintiff-Appellee, Florida Immigrant Coalition, Inc., Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc., Family Action Network Movement, Inc., QLatinx, WeCount!, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Phillip K. Stoddard, Plaintiff, v. GOVERNOR of the State of Florida, Attorney General, State of Florida, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: April 13, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kristen Loveland , James E. Tysse , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, Anne Janet Hernandez Anderson , Paul R. Chavez , Michelle P. Gonzalez , Southern Poverty Law Center, MIAMI, FL, Caroline Bettinger-Lopez , Rebecca Sharpless , Attorney, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, FL, Robert Kieran Dwyer , Victoria Mesa-Estrada , Florida Legal Services, Newberry, FL, Alana J. Greer , Miriam Haskell , Community Justice Project, Inc. Florida, Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Rachel Siegel , Henry Charles Whitaker , Karen Ann Brodeen , Natalie Christmas , Anita J. Patel , James Hamilton Percival, II , Elizabeth Teegen , Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Evan Matthew Ezray , Attorney General's Office, West Palm Beach, FL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Reid Harris , Edmund Gerard LaCour, Jr. , Alabama Attorney General's Office, Montgomery, AL, Stephen John Petrany , Georgia Department of Law, Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae State of Alabama.

Before William Pryor, Chief Judge, Marcus, Circuit Judge, and Mizelle, District Judge.


This appeal concerns whether several organizations may sue the governor and attorney general of Florida in federal court to challenge a state law that requires local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials. The state law provides that local officials shall support the enforcement of federal immigration...

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