DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC. v. REGENTS OF UNIV. OF CAL

No. 18-587.

140 S.Ct. 1891 (2020)

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, et al., Petitioners v. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, et al.; Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al., Petitioners National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al.; and Chad WOLF, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al., Petitioners v. Martin Jonathan Batalla VIDAL, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 18, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noel J. Francisco , Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Noel J. Francisco , Solicitor General, Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney, General, Jeffrey B. Wall , Deputy Solicitor General, Hashim M. Mooppan , Deputy Assistant Attorney, General, Jonathan Y. Ellis , Assistant to the Solicitor, General, Mark B. Stern , Abby C. Wright , Thomas Pulham, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Benjamin M. Eidelson , Cambridge, MA, Lindsay C. Harrison , Ian Heath Gershengorn , Thomas J. Perrelli , Matthew E. Price , Ishan K. Bhabha , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondents The Trustees of Princeton University, Microsoft Corporation, and Maria De La Cruz Perales Sanchez.

Joseph M. Sellers , Julie S. Selesnick , Cohen Milstein Sellers, & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC, for Respondents NAACP; American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO; and United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC.

Bradford M. Berry , NAACP, Baltimore, MD, for Respondent NAACP.

Ramona E. Romero , Wesley Markham , Princeton, NJ, for Respondent The Trustees of Princeton University.

Cynthia L. Randall , Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, for Respondent Microsoft Corporation.

David J. Strom , American Federation, of Teachers, Washington, DC, for Respondent American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.

Peter J. Ford , United Food &, Commercial Workers, International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, Washington, DC, for Respondent United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC.

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General of California, Michael J. Mongan , Solicitor General, Michael L. Newman , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Samuel P. Siegel , Joshua Patashnik , Deputy Solicitors General, Shubhra Shivpuri , James F. Zahradka II , Deputy Attorneys General, San Francisco, CA, Aaron M. Frey , Attorney General of Maine, Susan P. Herman , Deputy Attorney General, Augusta, ME, Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General of Maryland, Steven M. Sullivan , Solicitor General, Leah J. Tulin , Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, Keith Ellison , Attorney General of Minnesota, Liz Kramer , Solicitor General, Jacob Campion , Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, for Respondents.

Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. , Ethan D. Dettmer , Jonathan N. Soleimani , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Mark D. Rosenbaum , Judy London , Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA, Theodore B. Olson , Stuart F. Delery , Matthew S. Rozen , Andrew J. Wilhelm , Suria M. Bahadue , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC, for DACA Recipient Respondents in No. 18-587.

Erwin Chemerinsky , University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA, Laurence H. Tribe , Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Luis Cortes Romero , Immigrant Advocacy & Litigation, Center, PLLC, Kent, WA, Leah M. Litman , University of Michigan, Law School, Ann Arbor, MI, Michael J. Wishnie , Muneer I. Ahmad , Marisol Orihuela , Karen C. Tumlin , Cooperating Attorney, Jerome N. Frank Legal , Services Organization, New Haven, CT, Amy S. Taylor , Paige Austin , Brooklyn, NY, Trudy S. Rebert , National Immigration Law Center, Jackson Heights, NY, Araceli Martínez-Olguín , Mayra B. Joachin , National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA, Scott Foletta , Jackson Heights , NY, for DACA Recipient Respondents and, Make the Road New York in No. 18-589.

Stacey M. Leyton , Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Respondents County of, Santa Clara and Service Employees, International Union Local 521 in, No. 18-587.

James R. Williams , Greta S. Hansen , Laura S. Trice , Marcelo Quiñones , Office Of The County Counsel, County of Santa Clara, San Jose, CA, for Respondent County of, Santa Clara in No. 18-587.

Jeffrey M. Davidson , David Watnick , Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, CA, Charles F. Robinson , Margaret Wu , Sonya Sanchez , University of California, Office of the General Counsel, Oakland, CA, Robert A. Long , Lanny A. Breuer , Mark H. Lynch , Alexander A. Berengaut , Megan A. Crowley , Ivano M. Ventresca , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for The Regents of the University of California, and Janet Napolitano.

Justin T. Berger , Brian Danitz , Tamarah Prevost , Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, Burlingame, CA, for City of San José.

Letitia James , Attorney General of New York, Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, Anisha S. Dasgupta , Deputy Solicitor General, Andrew W. Amend , Assistant Deputy Solicitor General, David S. Frankel , Assistant Solicitor General, New York, NY, for Respondents.


In the summer of 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced an immigration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. That program allows certain unauthorized aliens who entered the United States as children to apply for a two-year...

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