INNOVATION LAW LAB v. MAYORKAS (2021)

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

INNOVATION LAW LAB; Central American Resource Center of Northern California; Centro Legal De La Raza; University of San Francisco School of Law Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic; Al Otro Lado; Tahirih Justice Center, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Alejandro MAYORKAS, Secretary of Homeland Security, in his official capacity; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Tracy Renaud, Acting Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in her official capacity; Andrew Davidson, Chief of Asylum Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in his official capacity; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; William A. Ferrara, Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in his official capacity; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in his official capacity; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Defendants-Appellants.

No. 19-15716

Decided: August 06, 2021

Before: Ferdinand F. Fernandez, William A. Fletcher, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.

William C. Peachey, Director, and Erez Reuveni, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants. Judy Rabinovitz, Michael Tan, Omar Jadwat, Lee Gelernt, Anand Balakrishnan and Daniel Galindo, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrants’ Rights Project, New York, New York; Katrina Eiland, and Cody Wofsy, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrants’ Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Melissa Crow, Southern Poverty Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Gracie Willis, Southern Poverty Law Center, Decatur, Georgia; Sean Riordan, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc., San Francisco, California; Blaine Bookey, Karen Musalo, Kathryn Jastram, Sayoni Maitra, and Anne Peterson, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, San Francisco, California; Steven Watt, ACLU Foundation Human Rights Program, New York, New York; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.