SHEN v. SIMPSON

Case No. 4:23-cv-208-AW-MAF.

687 F.Supp.3d 1219 (2023)

Yifan SHEN, Zhiming Xu, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Wilton SIMPSON, in his official capacity as Florida Commissioner of Agriculture, Meredith Ivey, in her official capacity as Acting Florida Secretary of Economic Opportunity, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Florida, Tallahassee Division.

Signed August 17, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gabriel J. Chin, University of California Davis School of Law, Davis, CA, Robert Seungchul Chang, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic, Seattle, WA, Rose Cuison-Villazor, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ, Ashley Marie Gorski, Patrick Christopher Toomey, Sarah Michelle Taitz, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Bethany Yue-Ping Li, Elizabeth L. Koo, Razeen J. Zaman, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, New York, NY, Cody H. Wofsy, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, San Francisco, CA, Daniel Boaz Tilley, ACLU Foundation of Florida Inc., Miami, FL, Derek Lawrence Shaffer, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart etc., Washington, DC, Haiyan Tang, San Diego, CA, Keliang Zhu, Deheng Law Offices PC, Pleasanton, CA, Nicholas Warren, ACLU Foundation of Florida, Tallahassee, FL, for Plaintiffs Yifan Shen, Zhiming Xu, Xinxi Wang, Multi-Choice Realty LLC.

Robert Seungchul Chang, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic, Seattle, WA, Rose Cuison-Villazor, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ, Ashley Marie Gorski, Patrick Christopher Toomey, Sarah Michelle Taitz, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Bethany Yue-Ping Li, Elizabeth L. Koo, Razeen J. Zaman, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, New York, NY, Cody H. Wofsy, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, San Francisco, CA, Daniel Boaz Tilley, ACLU Foundation of Florida Inc., Miami, FL, Derek Lawrence Shaffer, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart etc., Washington, DC, Haiyan Tang, San Diego, CA, Keliang Zhu, Deheng Law Offices PC, Pleasanton, CA, Nicholas Warren, ACLU Foundation of Florida, Tallahassee, FL, for Plaintiff Yongxin Liu.

Daniel Elden Nordby, Shutts & Bowen LLP, Tallahassee, FL, Daniel William Bell, Erik Louis Sayler, Henry Charles Whitaker, Nathan Andrew Forrester, Robert Scott Schenck, Office of the Attorney General Office of the Solicitor General, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendant Wilton Simpson.

Daniel William Bell, Erik Louis Sayler, Henry Charles Whitaker, Nathan Andrew Forrester, Robert Scott Schenck, Office of the Attorney General Office of the Solicitor General, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendants Meredith Ivey, Patricia Fitzgerald.

Madeleine Kristine Rodriguez, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA, Robert Seungchul Chang, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic, Seattle, WA, for Amicus Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law.

Madeleine Kristine Rodriguez, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA, Rose Cuison-Villazor, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ, for Amicus Center for Immigration Law Policy and Justice at Rutgers Law School.

Gabriel J. Chin, University of California Davis School of Law, Davis, CA, Madeleine Kristine Rodriguez, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA, for Amicus Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies at UC Davis School of Law.

Madeleine Kristine Rodriguez, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA, for Amici LLS Anti-Racism Center of Lmu Loyola Law School, Center on Race Inequality and The Law at New York University School of Law, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Tampa Bay, Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, Hispanic National Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, South Asian Bar Association of North America, Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta, Asian American Womens Political Initiative, Asian Law Alliance, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Japanese American Citizens League, Latinojustice Prldef.

Alisha Jarwala, DOJ-CRT, Washington, DC, for Amicus United States of America.

Joshua Nathaniel Turner, Idaho Office of the Attorney General Office of the Solicitor General, Boise, ID, for Amicus State of Idaho.


ORDER DENYING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION MOTION

A new Florida law limits landownership rights of certain noncitizens domiciled in China or other specific countries. See Fla. Stat. §§ 692.201-.204. Four Chinese...

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