United States Ninth Circuit

In cross-appeals arising from a challenge to pre-2003 U.S. sanctions prohibiting both travel to and the unlicensed donation of humanitarian medical supplies to Iraq, the court of appeals: 1) affirms a decision that plaintiff has standing to challenge the travel ban and that the travel ban regulation was validly promulgated; 2) finds that his challenge to the restriction on medical donations failed for lack of standing and ripeness; and 3) affirms a holding that a regulation prohibited the government from referring plaintiff's unpaid penalty to a private collection agency.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/24/2006
• Decided 10/10/2006
• Published 10/10/2006

Judges

• WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:, Before: WALLACE, WARDLAW, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth S. Kagan, Carney Badley Spellman, P.S., Seattle, WA, for amicus curiae Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald B. Scaramastra (argued) and Gary D. Swearingen, Garvey Schubert Barer, Seattle, WA, for appellant/cross-appellee Bertram Sacks., H. Thomas Byron III (argued) and Douglas Letter, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for appellees/cross-appellants Office of Foreign Assets Control.