Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James M. Burnham (argued) and Hashim M. Mooppan, Deputy Assistant Attorneys General; Courtney L. Dixon, Anne Murphy, and H. Thomas Byron III, Appellate Staff; Joseph H. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.
Dror Ladin (argued), Omar C. Jadwat, Hina Shamsi, Jonathan Hafetz, and Noor Zafar, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Cecillia D. Wang, American Civil Liberties Foundation, San Francisco, California; Christine P. Sun and Mollie M. Lee, American Civil Liberties Foundation of Northern California Inc., San Francisco, California; Andre I. Segura and David Donatti, American Civil Liberties Foundation of Texas, Houston, Texas; Gloria D. Smith and Sanjay Narayan, Sierra Club Environmental Law Program, Oakland, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Lee I. Sherman (argued), James F. Zahradka II, Janelle M. Smith, and Heather C. Leslie, Deputy Attorneys General; Edward H. Ochoa, Christine Chuang, and Michael P. Cayaban, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General; Michael L. Newman, Sally Magnani, and Robert W. Byrne, Senior Assistant Attorneys General; Xavier Becerra, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Oakland, California; Philip J. Weiser, Attorney General, Denver, Colorado; Matthew P. Denn, Attorney General, Wilmington, Delaware; Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Chicago, Illinois; Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Dana Nessel, Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan; Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General, Carson City, Nevada; George Jepsen, Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut; Russell A. Suzuki, Attorney General, Honolulu, Hawaii; Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General, Augusta, Maine; Maura Healey, Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Keith Ellison, Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General, Trenton, New Jersey; Hector Balderas, Attorney General, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Salem, Oregon; Thomas J. Donovan Jr., Attorney General, Montpelier, Vermont; Joshua L. Kaul, Attorney General, Madison, Wisconsin; Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, New York; Peter F. Kilmartin, Attorney General, Providence, Rhode Island; Mark R. Herring, Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia; for Amici Curiae States of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Attorney General Dana Nessel on Behalf of the People of Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Benjamin P. Sisney, Miles L. Terry, Stuart J. Roth, and Jay Alan Sekulow, American Center for Law & Justice, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae American Center for Law & Justice.
Gregory G. Garre, Dean W. Baxtresser, and Kyle R. Jefcoat, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae SLSCO Ltd.
Lawrence J. Joseph, Washington, D.C.; Christopher J. Hajec, Director of Litigation, Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Representative Andy Barr.
Douglas A. Winthrop, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, San Francisco, California; Samuel F. Callahan, Kaitlin Konkel, Andrew T. Tutt, Robert N. Weiner, and Irvin B. Nathan, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Former Members of Congress.
Elizabeth B. Wydra, Ashwin P. Phatak, Brian R. Frazelle, and Marine J. Gorod, Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Federal Courts Scholars.
Douglas N. Letter, General Counsel; Kristin A. Shapiro, Josephine Morse, and Megan Barbero, Associate General Counsel; Todd B. Tatelman, Deputy General Counsel Office of General Counsel, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae United States House of Representatives.
Kathleen R. Hartnett, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Palo Alto, California; Harold Hongju Koh, Rule of Law Clinic, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Phillip Spector, Messing & Spector LLP, Baltimore, Maryland; for Amicus Curiae Former United States Government Officials.
Dissent by Judge N.R. Smith