Complaint (2023-06-15)

Source document: Complaint (2023-06-15); document type: Notice of Motion and Motion (for leave to file amended and supplemental complaint; to lift stay).

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Omar C. Jadwat*

Lee Gelernt*
Anand Balakrishnan*
ACLU FOUNDATION
IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS PROJECT
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
T: (212) 549-2660
F: (212) 549-2654
ojadwat@aclu.org
lgelernt@aclu.org
abalakrishnan@aclu.org

Katrina Eiland (SBN 275701)
Morgan Russell (SBN 296137)
Spencer Amdur (SBN 320069)
Oscar Sarabia Roman (SBN 341385)
ACLU FOUNDATION
IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS PROJECT
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
T: (415) 343-0770
F: (415) 395-0950
keiland@aclu.org
mrussell@aclu.org
samdur@aclu.org
osarabia@aclu.org

Attorneys for Plaintiffs (Additional counsel listed on following page)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, et
al.,

Defendants.

Case No.: 18-cv-06810-JST

PLAINTIFFS’ NOTICE OF MOTION
AND MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE
AN AMENDED AND
SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT AND
TO LIFT THE STAY OF
PROCEEDINGS

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MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE AN AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT
Melissa Crow*
CENTER FOR GENDER & REFUGEE
STUDIES
1121 14th Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
T: (202) 355-4471
F:  (415) 581-8824
crowmelissa@uchastings.edu

Anne Peterson (SBN 258673)
Blaine Bookey (SBN 267596)
Julie Bourdoiseau (SBN 340462)
Karen Musalo (SBN 106882)
CENTER FOR GENDER & REFUGEE
STUDIES
200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA  94102
T: (415) 610-5729
F: (415) 581-8824
petersonanne@uchastings.edu

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

*Admitted pro hac vice
** Application for admission pro hac vice
forthcoming

Keren Zwick**
Richard Caldarone**
Colleen Cowgill (SBN 321542)
Mary Georgevich**
NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
CENTER
224 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60604
T: (312) 660-1370
F: (312) 660-1505
kzwick@heartlandalliance.org
rcaldarone@heartlandalliance.org
ccowgill@heartlandalliance.org
mgeorgevich@heartlandalliance.org

Michelle (Minju) Y. Cho (SBN 321939)
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA, INC.
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
T: (415) 621-2493
F: (415) 255-8437
mcho@aclunc.org

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MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE AN AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT
NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE SUPPLEMENTAL
COMPLAINT AND TO LIFT THE STAY OF PROCEEDINGS

TO DEFENDANTS AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that as soon as they may be heard before the Honorable Jon S.
Tigar in the District Court for the Northern District of California in Courtroom 6, 2nd Floor,
Plaintiffs East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Central American Resource Center of Los Angeles, Al Otro
Lado, and Innovation Law Lab, and proposed additional Plaintiffs Tahirih Justice Center, National
Center for Lesbian Rights, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, and American Gateways hereby move
the Court for leave to file an Amended and Supplemental Complaint and to lift the stay of these
proceedings.

Plaintiffs recognize this Court’s standing order regarding the consideration of motions and
request that this Court hear this case as soon as possible, before the next available motions date of
June 15, 2023.  Plaintiffs intend to move for preliminary relief against the new asylum ban—
Circumvention of Lawful Pathways (May 10, 2023) (the “Rule”).  Should the Court wish to hear
argument on this motion to amend and supplement, Plaintiffs request that the hearing be combined
with Plaintiffs’ forthcoming motion for preliminary relief.
Plaintiffs seek to update their complaint to address the new asylum ban that modifies and
rescinds the November 2018 interim final rule challenged in the original complaint, which this Court
preliminarily enjoined.  As Plaintiffs did in their original complaint, the proposed Amended and
Supplemental Complaint likewise challenges the new asylum ban on the basis that it is contrary to
law, is arbitrary and capricious, and unlawfully bypasses the Administrative Procedure Act
(“APA”)’s procedural requirements.  The new Rule is subject to these fatal flaws for many of the
same reasons that this Court relied upon to enjoin the initial entry-ban rule: Among other things, it
restricts access to asylum based on place and manner of entry, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(1),
and in passing the Rule the agencies failed to comply with the APA’s requirement to provide the
public with an adequate opportunity to comment.  A copy of Plaintiffs’ proposed First Amended and
Supplemental Complaint is attached to this motion as Exhibit A.  A redlined version that identifies
the proposed additions and alterations is attached as Exhibit B.

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MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE AN AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT
This motion is brought pursuant Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15, and it is based on the
enclosed Memorandum of Points and Authorities and materials cited therein; the attached proposed
Amended and Supplemental Complaint; the pleadings and evidence on file in this matter; and such
other materials and argument as may be presented in connection with the hearing on the motion.

Dated: May 11, 2023

Omar C. Jadwat*

Lee Gelernt*
Anand Balakrishnan*
ACLU FOUNDATION
IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS PROJECT
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
T: (212) 549-2660
F: (212) 549-2654
ojadwat@aclu.org
lgelernt@aclu.org
abalakrishnan@aclu.org

Melissa Crow*
CENTER FOR GENDER & REFUGEE
STUDIES
1121 14th Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
T: (202) 355-4471
F:  (415) 581-8824
crowmelissa@uchastings.edu

Anne Peterson (SBN 258673)
Blaine Bookey (SBN 267596)
Julie Bourdoiseau (SBN 340462)*
Karen Musalo (SBN 106882)
CENTER FOR GENDER & REFUGEE
STUDIES
200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA  94102
T: (415) 610-5729
F: (415) 581-8824
petersonanne@uchastings.edu

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

*Admitted pro hac vice
**Applications for admission pro hac vice
forthcoming
Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Katrina Eiland
Katrina Eiland (SBN 275701)
Morgan Russell (SBN 296137)
Spencer Amdur (SBN 320069)
Oscar Sarabia Roman (SBN 341385)
ACLU FOUNDATION
IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS PROJECT
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
T: (415) 343-0770
F: (415) 395-0950
keiland@aclu.org
mrussell@aclu.org
samdur@aclu.org
osarabia@aclu.org

Keren Zwick**
Richard Caldarone**
Colleen Cowgill (SBN 321542)
Mary Georgevich**
NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER
224 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60604
T: (312) 660-1370
F: (312) 660-1505
kzwick@heartlandalliance.org
rcaldarone@heartlandalliance.org
ccowgill@heartlandalliance.org
mgeorgevich@heartlandalliance.org

Michelle (Minju) Y. Cho (SBN 321939)
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA, INC.
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
T: (415) 621-2493
F: (415) 255-8437
mcho@aclunc.org

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