EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT v. BIDEN

No. 23-16032.

EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT; CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER; TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER; NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS LAW CENTER; AMERICAN GATEWAYS, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. JOSEPH R. BIDEN, President of the United States; MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; DAVID NEAL; EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW; ALEJANDRO N. MAYORKAS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; UR M. JADDOU; UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES; TROY A. MILLER; UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 22, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian M. Boynton (argued), Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Daniel J. Tenny , Sean R. Janda , and Brian J. Springer , Appellate Staff Attorneys; Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Christina P. Greer and Patrick J. Glen , Senior Litigation Counsel; Erez Reuveni , Assistant Director; William C. Peachey , Director; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Spencer E. Wittmann Amdur (argued), Katrina L. Eiland , Morgan Russell , Oscar S. Roman , and Cody Wofsy , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Lee P. Gelernt , Omar C. Jadwat , Wafa Junaid , and Judy Rabinovitz , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; Melissa E. Crow , Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Washington, D.C.; Anne E. Peterson , Blaine Bookey , Julie B. Bourdoiseau , and Karen Musalo , Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, San Francisco, California; Robert Pauw , CGRS Cooperating Attorney, Gibbs Houston Pauw , Seattle, Washington; Keren H. Zwick , Richard Caldarone , Colleen Cowgill , and Mary Georgevich , National Immigrant Justice Center, Chicago, Illinois; Michelle Y. Cho , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, Inc., San Francisco, California; Angelo Guisado , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Matt A. Crapo and Christopher J. Hajec, Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Immigration Reform Law Institute.

Katherine L. Evans and Charles S. Ellison, Duke University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic, Durham, North Carolina, for Amici Curiae Professors of Immigration Law. Ashley B. Vinson, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae Former Immigration Judges & Former Members of the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Alice Farmer, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Washington, D.C.; Robert R. Anderson, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Denver, Colorado; Samuel M. Witten and Kaitlin Konkel, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Kathleen R. Hartnett and Zoë Helstrom, Cooley LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council 119.

Cameron C. Russell and Rebecca Berman, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, New York, New York; Justina Sessions and J. Mia Tsui, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, Redwood City, California; Seve Kale, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Asylum Access México A.C. and Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración A.C.

Anwen Hughes, Christina Asencio, Rebecca Gendelman, and Licha M. Nyiendo, Human Rights First, New York, New York; Farida Chehata, Human Rights First, Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae Human Rights and Legal Services Organizations.

Matt A. Crapo and Christopher J. Hajec, Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Immigration Reform Law Institute.

Neville S. Hedley, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute.

Bridget K. O'Hickey, Assistant Solicitor General; James H. Percival, Chief of Staff; Henry C. Whitaker, Solicitor General, Antitrust Section; Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida; Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida; for Amici Curiae States of Florida, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

Order, Dissent by Judge VanDyke.


ORDER

The States of Alabama, Kansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and West Virginia ("the States") seek to intervene in this appeal. Dkt. No. 86. For the reasons explained below, we deny the motion.

This appeal is currently held in abeyance. In July 2023, after the parties filed cross-motions for summary judgment, the district court granted summary judgment in Plaintiffs' favor and vacated the challenged rule (the "Rule"). See E. Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Biden...

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