United States Ninth Circuit

The prohibition on providing "training" and "personnel" to a designated terrorist organization, under 18 U.S.C. section 2339B, is impermissibly overbroad, and thus void for vagueness under the First and Fifth Amendments.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/05/2003
• Decided 12/03/2003
• Published 12/03/2003

Judges

• Before:  PREGERSON, THOMAS, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David Cole, c/o Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., Nancy Chang, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, Paul L. Hoffman, Schonbrun, De Simone, Seplow, Harris & Hoffman, LLP, Venice CA, Carol A. Sobel, Santa Monica, CA, Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, New York, NY, for plaintiffs-appellants/cross-appellees., Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees/cross-appellants.