DOE v. MAYORKAS (2021)

ORDER

On December 15, 2020, we vacated submission of this appeal pending the Supreme Court's disposition of Mayorkas v. Innovation Law Lab, No. 19-1212, an appeal that challenged the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). The Department of Homeland Security terminated the MPP on June 1, 2021. Memorandum from Alejandro N. Mayorkas regarding Termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols Program 7 (June 1, 2021), available at https://go.usa.gov/x6s7E. On June 21, 2021, the Supreme Court issued an order vacating the judgment in Innovation Law Lab and remanding to the Ninth Circuit with instructions to direct the district court to vacate as moot the April 8, 2019 preliminary injunction that enjoined the Department of Homeland Security from implementing the MPP.

This appeal before us challenges a discrete procedural sub-issue of the now-terminated MPP. Because the Supreme Court decided that a challenge to the MPP as a whole was moot after the government terminated the program, we conclude that the narrower question presented in this appeal is also moot. Accordingly, we remand this case to the district court with instructions to vacate the January 14, 2020 order granting the motion for classwide preliminary injunction as moot. See United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U. S. 36, 71 S.Ct. 104, 95 L.Ed. 36 (1950).¹

REMANDED

FOOTNOTES

1.   Appellees’ motion to file a supplemental brief, ECF 30, is DENIED as moot. Appellees’ motion to supplement the record on appeal, ECF 55, is GRANTED.