A & R ENGINEERING AND TESTING, INC. v. SCOTT

No. 22-20047.

72 F.4th 685 (2023)

A & R ENGINEERING AND TESTING, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John SCOTT, Attorney General of Texas, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED July 10, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lena F. Masri , Gadeir Ibrahim Abbas , Justin Sadowsky , Council on American-Islamic Relations, Washington, DC, John Thomas Floyd, III , Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Benjamin Wallace Mendelson , Assistant Solicitor General, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Eugene Volokh , UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, for Amici Curiae Michael C. Dorf, Andrew M. Koppelman, Eugene Volokh.

Jay Mark Goldstein , Goldstein Law, P.L.L.C., Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center.

Akiva Shapiro , Michal Baum, Esq. , Attorney, John Hail Heyburn , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., New York, NY, Katie Rose Talley , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Amici Curiae Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Incorporated.

Adam Howard Charnes, Esq. , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Amicus Curiae Eighteen Constitutional and Business Law Professors.

Jonathan M. Rotter , Attorney, Glancy, Prongay & Murray, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, for Amici Curiae StandWithUs, Agudath Israel of America, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.

Drew C. Ensign , Deputy Solicitor General, Drew C. Ensign, P.L.L.C., Phoenix, AZ, for Amici Curiae State of Arizona, State of Arkansas, State of Florida, State of Georgia, State of Indiana, State of Kansas, State of Kentucky, State of Louisiana, State of Mississippi, State of Montana, State of Ohio, State of Oklahoma, State of South Carolina, State of South Dakota, State of Virginia, State of Utah, State of West Virginia.

Nathan Lewin , Lewin & Lewin, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Sixty-Seven Texas Legislators.

James Patrick Sullivan , Office of the Governor for the State of Texas, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Greg Abbott, Governor of the State of Texas.

Paul D. Clement , Erin Murphy , Clement & Murphy, P.L.L.C., Alexandria, VA, for Amicus Curiae Christians United for Israel.

Jay A. Sekulow, Esq. , Benjamin Paul Sisney , American Center for Law & Justice, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae American Center for Law and Justice.

Jethro Eisenstein , Profeta & Eisenstein, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae American Friends of Service Committee, Israel Palestine Mission Network of The Presbyterian Church (USA), Jewish Voice for Peace, Incorporated, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Friends of Sabeel North America, US Palestinian Community Network.

Joseph Mead , Institute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection, Washington, DC, Mary B. McCord, Esq. , Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae T'Ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, J Street.

Ramya Krishnan , Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae William D. Araiza, Erwin Chemerinsky, Owen Fiss, Katherine Franke, Seth F. Kreimer, Genevieve Lakier, Burt Neuborne, Amanda Shanor, Geoffrey R. Stone, Nadine Strossen, Nelson Tebbe, Rebecca Tushnet.

Bernardo Rafael Cruz , American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Houston, TX, for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas.

John Saoirse Friend , Friend Law, P.S.C., Louisville, KY, for Amicus Curiae Rutherford Institute.

David L. Mandel , Sacramento, CA, for Amici Curiae Benjamin Balthaser, Daniel Boyarin, Hasia Diner, Marjorie N. Feld, Emmaia Gelman, Aaron J. Hahn Tapper, Gil Hochberg, Ari Y. Kelman, Charles H. Manekin, Eva Mroczek, Sven-Erik Rose, Seth Sanderrs, Benjamin Schreier, Joshua Schreier, David Sorkin, Barry Trachtenberg, Diane L. Wolf.

Maria LaHood , New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal.

Ambika Kumar , Attorney, Caesar D. Kalinowski , Davis Wright Tremaine, L.L.P., Seattle, WA, for Amicus Curiae Professor Lawrence Glickman.

Before Stewart, Willett, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.


Under Texas law, parties to municipal contracts must certify that they do not and will not boycott Israel for the duration of their contracts. The City of Houston offered A&R Engineering and Testing, Inc. a contract with an anti-boycott clause. A&R refused to sign and brought a § 1983 suit against the...

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