Law Professors Submit Amici Curiae Brief in Fourth Circuit Travel Ban 3.0 Appeal

Professor Peter Margulies

A number of law professors have submitted an amici curiae brief in support of the plaintiffs-appellees in International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in a challenge to President Trump's third travel ban. Click here for a summary of the current litigation.  Download Brief

Law professor Peter Margulies and the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr authored the brief the brief, which was submitted on behalf of the following law professors:

Richard Boswell, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Gabriel J. Chin, University of California, Davis School of Law
Marisa S. Cianciarulo, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University
Maryellen Fullerton, Brooklyn Law School
Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Santa Clara University
Alan Hyde, Rutgers Law School
Daniel Kanstroom, Boston College Law School
Stephen Legomsky, Washington University School of Law
Matthew Lindsay, University of Baltimore School of Law
Peter Margulies, Roger Williams University School of Law

Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Law Center
David Rubenstein, Washburn University School of Law
Bijal Shah, Arizona State University
Anita Sinha, American University, Washington College of Law
Shoba Wadhia, Penn State Law

The brief supports affirmance of the injunction entered by the district court:

"By indefinitely suspending immigration from designated countries, President Trump’s third iteration of his travel ban (the “Proclamation”) engages in precisely the kind of discrimination that Congress prohibited in the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) amendments of 1965 and runs roughshod over the carefully calibrated system of checks and balances Congress sought to impose on the President’s exercise of discretion in administering immigration law."

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