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DREAM DEFENDERS v. DESANTIS

Case No.: 4:21cv191-MW/MAF.

553 F.Supp.3d 1052 (2021)

The DREAM DEFENDERS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ron DESANTIS, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Florida, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Florida, Tallahassee Division.

Signed August 9, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anya Anton Marino , Harvard Law School, Jamaica Plain, MA, Georgina C. Yeomans, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc., Caroline Lewis Wolverton , James Tysse , Miranda Alyssa Dore , Steven H. Schulman , Akin Gump Strauss etc., Washington, DC, Max H. Gaston , Daniel Boaz Tilley , Nicholas Warren , ACLU Foundation of Florida Inc., Alana J. Greer , Berbeth S. Foster , Denise A. Ghartey , Miriam Fahsi Haskell , Community Justice Project Inc., Miami, FL, Rachel M. Kleinman , Morenike Fajana , NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc., Anne Morrill Evans , Erica Evette Holland , Joseph L. Sorkin , Akin Gump Strauss etc., New York, NY, Nicholas Edward Petree , Akin Gump Strauss et al., LLP, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs Dream Defenders, Black Collective Inc., Chainless Change Inc., Black Lives Matter Alliance Broward, Florida State Conference of the NAACP.

Anya Anton Marino , Harvard Law School, Jamaica Plain, MA, Alana J. Greer , Berbeth S. Foster , Denise A. Ghartey , Miriam Fahsi Haskell , Community Justice Project Inc., Daniel Boaz Tilley , Max H. Gaston , Nicholas Warren , ACLU Foundation of Florida Inc., Miami, FL, Anne Morrill Evans , Erica Evette Holland , Joseph L. Sorkin , Akin Gump Strauss etc., Morenike Fajana , Rachel M. Kleinman , NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc., New York, NY, Caroline Lewis Wolverton , James Tysse , Miranda Alyssa Dore , Steven H. Schulman , Akin Gump Strauss etc., Washington, DC, Nicholas Edward Petree , Akin Gump Strauss et al. LLP, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff Northside Coalition of Jacksonville Inc.

Karen Ann Brodeen , Anita J. Patel , Florida Attorney Generals Office, Nicholas John Peter Meros , Emily C. Percival , James William Uthmeier , Executive Office of the Governor of Florida Office of General Counsel, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendant Ron Desantis.

Matthew Joseph Carson , Michael Patrick Spellman , Sniffen & Spellman PA, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendant Walt McNeil.

Helen Peacock Roberson , Office of General Counsel, Jon Robert Phillips , Laura J. Boeckman , Sonya Harrell , Mary Margaret Giannini , Office of General Counsel City of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, for Defendant Mike Williams.

Christopher J. Stearns, Jr. , Michael Ross Piper , Johnson Anselmo Murdoch etc., PA, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for Defendant Gregory Tony.

ORDER ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS

In April 2021, Governor DeSantis signed House Bill 1 (HB1 or "the Act")—better known as the "anti-riot" bill—into law. The ultimate question in this case is whether HB1 violates the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment...

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