PADILLA v. FKA HHS ORR CBP ICE (2022)

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Yolany PADILLA; Ibis Guzman; Blanca Orantes; Baltazar Vasquez, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of ICE; Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of DHS; Chris Magnus, Commissioner of CBP; Ur M. Jaddou, Director of USCIS; Marc J. Moore, Seattle Field Office Director, ICE; Executive Office for Immigration Review; Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, United States Attorney General; Lowell Clark, Warden of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington; Charles Ingram, Warden of the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, Washington; David Shinn, Director; James Janecka, Warden of the Adelanto Detention Facility, Defendants-Appellants, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, FKA Department of Social Services; Office of Refugee Resettlement; Xavier Becerra, Secretary of HHS; Scott Lloyd, Director of ORR; Chris Magnus, Commissioner of CBP; Elizabeth Godfrey, Acting Director of Seattle Field Office, ICE, Defendants.

No. 19-35565

Decided: July 29, 2022

Before: Michael Daly Hawkins, Sidney R. Thomas, and Bridget S. Bade, Circuit Judges.

Lauren C. Bingham (argued), Counsel; Sarah S. Wilson and Erez Reuveni, Assistant Directors; William C. Peachey, Director; Brian Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants. Matt Adams (argued), Leila Kang, and Aaron Korthuis, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle, Washington; Trina A. Realmuto and Kristin Macleod-Ball, National Immigration Litigation Alliance, Brookline, Massachusetts; Judy Rabinovitz, Michael Tan, and Anand Balakrishnan, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project New York, New York; Emma Winger, American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiffs-Appellees. Alan Schoenfeld and Lori A. Martin, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York; Rebecca Arriaga Herche, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Jamil Aslam, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae Retired Immigration Judges and Board of Immigration Appeals Members. Erin K. Earl, Julie Wilson-McNerney, and Anna Mouw Thompson, Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, Washington, for Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Pretrial Justice Institute, and Center for Legal and Evidence-Based Practices. Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General; Andrew R. W. Hughes, Kristin Beneski, and Brendan Selby, Assistant Attorneys General; Office of the Attorney General, Seattle, Washington; Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Sacramento, California; Phil Weiser, Attorney General, Denver, Colorado; William Tong, Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut; Kathleen Jennings, Attorney General, Wilmington, Delaware; Karl A. Racine, Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; Clare E. Connors, Attorney General, Honolulu, Hawaii; Kwame Raoul, Attorney General, Chicago, Illinois; Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Maura Healey, Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Dana Nessel, Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan; Keith Ellison, Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General, Carson City, Nevada; Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General; Glenn J. Moramarco, Assistant Attorney General; Marie Soueid, Deputy Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Trenton, New Jersey; Hector Balderas, Attorney General, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General, Providence, Rhode Island; Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Salem, Oregon; Thomas J. Donovan Jr., Attorney General, Montpelier, Vermont; Mark R. Herring, Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia; for Amici Curiae Washington, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia.