United States Ninth Circuit

In a challenge to the procedure used by the Secretary of State to designate terrorist organizations, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where plaintiff nonprofit organization lacked standing to challenge the President's designation authority because plaintiff had never been designated, or threatened with designation, on account of it.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/19/2008
• Decided 08/24/2009
• Published 08/24/2009

Judges

• Before HARRY PREGERSON and PAMELA ANN RYMER, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD R. KORMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joshua Waldman, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C.;  Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., (argued), for the defendants-appellees.