RODRIGUEZ v. SWARTZ (2020)

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Araceli RODRIGUEZ, individually and as the surviving mother and personal representative of J.A., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lonnie SWARTZ, Agent of U.S. Border Patrol, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 15-16410

Decided: April 07, 2020

Before: KLEINFELD and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN,  * District Judge.

Lee P. Gelernt, ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Mitra Ebadolahi, ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties, San Diego, CA, Arturo Jorge Gonzalez, Esquire, Attorney, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, Dror Ladin, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, NY, James Duff Lyall, Attorney, ACLU of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, Roberto C. Montiel, Esquire, Attorney, Law Office of Roberto Montiel, Nogales, AZ, Luis Fernando Parra, Esquire, Attorney, Parra Law Offices PLLC, Nogales, AZ, Cecillia D. Wang, Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, CA, Cody Wofsy, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee Sean Christopher Chapman, Esquire, Law Offices of Sean C. Chapman, P.C., Tucson, AZ, for Defendant - Appellant Katherine Twomey Allen, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States of America Jeffrey Laurence Bleich, Trial Attorney, Dentons US LLP, San Francisco, CA, Andrew Cath Rubenstein, Munger Tolles & Olson, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Professors of Constitutional Law and Foreign Relations Law Sarah Pascal Alexander, Constantine Cannon LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Human Rights Watch Donald Francis Donovan, Esquire, Attorney, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae The Government of the United Mexican States Stanley Young, Covington & Burling LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for Amici Curiae Coalicion De Derechos Humanos, Southern Border Communities Coalition, No More Deaths, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Kino Border Initiative, American Immigration Council Matthew Price, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Law Professors Ethan Douglas Dettmer, Esquire, Attorney, Joshua S. Lipshutz, Esquire, Attorney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Scholars of U.S.-Mexico Border Issues Mahesha Subbaraman, Counsel, Subbaraman PLLC, Minneapolis, MN, for Amicus Curiae Restore the Fourth, Inc.