Publication Date: 2013-04-16
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Date Filed: 2013-04-16
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Terry J. Hatter, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Sam E. Haddon, District Judge.*
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore W. Atkinson (argued), Stuart F. Delery, August Flentje, David J. Kline, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.
for defendant: Ahilan T. Arulanantham (argued), Michael Kaufman, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Judy Rabinovitz and Michael Tan, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; Jayashri Srikantiah, Stanford Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Stanford, California; Sean Commons and Cody Jacobs, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Appellees.
Angel L. Tang, Marco J. Martemucci, and Elizabeth S. St. John, Arnold & Porter LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae professors and researchers of sociology, criminology, anthropology, and law.
Sarah H. Paoletti, Elizabeth Freed, and Suniti Mehta, University of Pennsylvania Law School Transnational Legal Clinic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Amici Curiae international law professors and human rights clinics and clinicians.
Case Number: No. 12-56734
Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 3703ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ; ABDIRIZAK A DEN FARAH; JOSE FARIAS CORNEJO; USSUF BDIKADIR; ABEL EREZ UELAS, for themselves and on behalf