State of Washington, et al., v. Trump., et al

Filing 192

JOINT STATUS REPORT signed by all parties Filed by Plaintiff State of Washington.(Melody, Colleen)

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Case 2:17-cv-00141-JLR Document 192 Filed 07/06/17 Page 1 of 6 1 The Honorable James L. Robart 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 STATE OF WASHINGTON; STATE 9 OF CALIFORNIA; STATE OF MARYLAND; COMMONWEALTH 10 OF MASSACHUSETTS; STATE OF NEW YORK; and STATE OF 11 OREGON, 12 13 CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:17-cv-00141-JLR Plaintiffs, v. JOINT STATUS REPORT 14 DONALD TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United 15 States; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; JOHN F. 16 KELLY, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of 17 Homeland Security; REX W. TILLERSON, in his official capacity 18 as Secretary of State; and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 19 Defendants. 20 21 I. INTRODUCTION 22 Pursuant to a stipulation of the parties, the Court ordered the parties to file a joint status 23 report by July 6, 2017 on the continued appropriateness of the stay in this case. Stipulation and 24 Order to Extend Deadline for Submitting Joint Status Report, ECF No. 191 at 3. The parties 25 submit the following report in which they agree that it is appropriate for a stay to remain in 26 JOINT STATUS REPORT 1 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WASHINGTON 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98104-3188 (206) 464-7744 Case 2:17-cv-00141-JLR Document 192 Filed 07/06/17 Page 2 of 6 1 place until the conclusion of Supreme Court proceedings in Trump v. Hawai‘i and Trump v. 2 International Refugee Assistance Project. 3 II. RELEVANT PROCEDURAL HISTORY 4 The State of Washington filed this suit on January 30, 2017, challenging Executive 5 Order 13769. Complaint ¶ 1, ECF No. 1. On March 9, the Court granted the State of Oregon’s 6 Motion to Intervene. ECF No. 112. On March 13, the States of California, Maryland, 7 New York, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts joined the case and the Plaintiff States 8 amended their complaint to add challenges to Executive Order 13780. Second Amended 9 Complaint ¶¶ 3-4, ECF No. 152. 10 On March 15, the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai‘i issued a temporary 11 restraining order (TRO) enjoining enforcement nationwide of Sections 2 and 6 of Executive 12 Order 13780. Hawai‘i v. Trump, No. 1:17-cv-00050-DKW-KSC (D. Haw. Mar. 15, 2017), 13 ECF No. 219. In light of the Hawai‘i ruling, this Court stayed a pending motion for TRO filed 14 by the Plaintiff States. See Order Staying Plaintiffs’ Mtn. for TRO, ECF No. 164. Two weeks 15 after issuing the TRO, the Hawai‘i court converted it into a preliminary injunction. See 16 Hawai‘i, No. 1:17-cv-00050 (D. Haw. Mar. 29, 2017), ECF No. 270. 17 The Defendants appealed the Hawai‘i preliminary injunction and sought to stay 18 proceedings in this case pending resolution of the Hawai‘i appeal. Def.’s Mtn. to Stay District 19 Ct. Proceedings Pending Resolution of Appeal in Hawaii v. Trump at 3, ECF No. 175. On May 20 17, this Court granted Defendants’ motion, stayed proceedings “pending the Ninth Circuit’s 21 resolution of the appeal in Hawaii v. Trump,” and ordered the parties “to file a joint status 22 report within ten days of the Ninth Circuit’s ruling so that the court may evaluate the continued 23 appropriateness of any stay at that time.” ECF No. 189 at 12. 24 The Ninth Circuit issued its opinion on June 12. Hawai‘i v. Trump, No. 17-15589, 2017 25 WL 2529640 (9th Cir. June 12, 2017) (per curiam). The Ninth Circuit affirmed the injunction 26 JOINT STATUS REPORT 2 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WASHINGTON 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98104-3188 (206) 464-7744 Case 2:17-cv-00141-JLR Document 192 Filed 07/06/17 Page 3 of 6 1 in part and vacated it in part. Id. at *26-29 (affirming injunction, except as to provisions of the 2 Executive Order involving agency review procedures and as applied to the President). 3 The Defendants petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, applied for a stay 4 pending appeal, and requested that the Hawai‘i case be consolidated with Trump v. 5 International Refugee Assistance Project, 857 F.3d 554 (4th Cir. 2017) (en banc). To permit 6 the parties to be informed by the Supreme Court’s decisions on the certiorari petitions and stay 7 applications, the parties here agreed to an extension of time to submit their joint status report. 8 On June 26, the Supreme Court granted certiorari, granted the stay application in part, 9 and consolidated Trump v. Hawai‘i and Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project. 10 Nos. 16-1436 (16A1190), 16-1540 (16A1191), 2017 WL 2722580 (U.S. June 26, 2017). The 11 cases will be heard during the first session October Term 2017. Id. at *5. 12 III. STATUS REPORT 13 The parties agree that it is appropriate for a stay to remain in place until the conclusion 14 of Supreme Court proceedings in Hawai‘i and International Refugee Assistance Project. The 15 parties further agree that, should circumstances change such that lifting the stay is warranted, 16 any party may move to lift the stay. 17 18 DATED this 6th day of July, 2017. 19 Respectfully submitted, 20 BOB FERGUSON, WSBA #26004 Attorney General of Washington 21 22 23 24 25 26 CHAD A. READLER Acting Assistant Attorney General /s/ Colleen M. Melody__________ ___ NOAH G. PURCELL, WSBA #43492 Solicitor General COLLEEN M. MELODY, WSBA #42275 Civil Rights Unit Chief ANNE E. EGELER, WSBA #20258 Deputy Solicitor General MARSHA CHIEN, WSBA #47020 PATRICIO A. MARQUEZ, WSBA #47693 Assistant Attorneys General JOINT STATUS REPORT JENNIFER D. RICKETTS Director, Federal Programs Branch JOHN R. TYLER Assistant Director, Federal Programs Branch /s/ Michelle R. Bennett MICHELLE R. BENNETT 3 _ ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WASHINGTON 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98104-3188 (206) 464-7744 Case 2:17-cv-00141-JLR Document 192 Filed 07/06/17 Page 4 of 6 1 2 3 Office of the Attorney General 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 464-7744 Noahp@atg.wa.gov ColleenM1@atg.wa.gov DANIEL SCHWEI ARJUN GARG BRAD P. ROSENBERG Trial Attorneys U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 Tel: (202) 305-8902 Fax: (202) 616-8470 Email: michelle.bennett@usdoj.gov arjun.garg@usdoj.gov 4 5 6 7 8 XAVIER BECERRA Attorney General of California Angela Sierra Senior Assistant Attorney General Douglas J. Woods Senior Assistant Attorney General Tamar Pachter Supervising Deputy Attorney General Attorneys for Defendants 9 10 11 12 _/s/ Alexandra Robert Gordon________ Alexandra Robert Gordon Deputy Attorney General Office of the Attorney General 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 San Francisco, CA 94102-7004 Telephone: (415) 703-5509 Email: Alexandra.RobertGordon@doj.ca.gov 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 BRIAN E. FROSH Attorney General of Maryland _/s/ Robert A. Scott _____ ______ __ STEVEN M. SULLIVAN Solicitor General Federal Bar No. 24930 ROBERT A. SCOTT Assistant Attorney General Federal Bar No. 24613 MEGHAN K. CASEY Assistant Attorney General Federal Bar No. 28958 Office of the Attorney General of Maryland 200 St. Paul Place, 20th Floor Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Telephone: (410) 576-6325 Fax: (410) 576-6955 ssullivan@oag.state.md.us rscott@oag.state.md.us mcasey@oag.state.md.us 24 25 26 JOINT STATUS REPORT 4 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WASHINGTON 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98104-3188 (206) 464-7744 Case 2:17-cv-00141-JLR Document 192 Filed 07/06/17 Page 5 of 6 1 MAURA HEALEY Attorney General of Massachusetts 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 _/s/ Genevieve C. Nadeau ELIZABETH N. DEWAR State Solicitor GENEVIEVE C. NADEAU Chief, Civil Rights Division JESSE M. BOODOO Assistant Attorney General One Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108 617-727-2200 Bessie.Dewar@state.ma.us Genevieve.Nadeau@state.ma.us Jesse.Boodoo@state.ma.us 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ERIC T. SCHNEIDERMAN Attorney General of the State of New York _/s/ Lourdes M. Rosado_____________ LOURDES M. ROSADO Bureau Chief, Civil Rights Bureau SANIA W. KHAN Assistant Attorney General Office of the New York State Attorney General 120 Broadway New York, New York 10271 (212) 416-8252 lourdes.rosado@ag.ny.gov ELLEN F. ROSENBLUM Attorney General of Oregon 18 19 20 21 22 _/s/ Scott J. Kaplan SCOTT J. KAPLAN, WSBA #49377 Senior Assistant Attorney General Oregon Department of Justice 100 Market Street Portland, OR 97201 971-673-1880 scott.kaplan@doj.state.or.us ____ 23 24 25 26 JOINT STATUS REPORT 5 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WASHINGTON 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98104-3188 (206) 464-7744 Case 2:17-cv-00141-JLR Document 192 Filed 07/06/17 Page 6 of 6 1 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on July 6, 2017, I electronically filed the foregoing Joint Status 3 Report using the Court’s CM/ECF system, causing a notice of filing to be served upon all 4 counsel of record. 5 Dated: 6 July 6, 2017 /s/Colleen Melody____ 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 JOINT STATUS REPORT 6 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WASHINGTON 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98104-3188 (206) 464-7744

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