# Amicus Curiae Brief — Trump v. Int'l Refugee Assistance Project, 138 S. Ct. 50 (2017) (No. 16-1436) > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/brief%3Amicro_IA40385016_0753%3A103 ## Record - **Collection:** Supreme Court brief - **Document type:** Amicus Curiae Brief - **Published:** January 1, 2017 ## Text Nos. 16-1436 & 16-1540 OFFICE OF THE CLERK Supreme Court of the United States DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., Petitioners, Vv. INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT, ET AL., Respondents. DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., Petitioners, Vv. STATE OF HAWAU, ET AL., Respondents. ON WRITS OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH AND NINTH CIRCUITS BRIEF FOR SCHOLARS OF FEDERAL JURISDICTION AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS STEPHEN I. VLADECK SETH P. WAXMAN 727 E. Dean Keeton St. Counsel of Record Austin, TX 78705 WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP OMAR A. KHAN 1875 Pennsylvania Ave., NW JAMIE DYCUS Washington, DC 20006 ADRIEL L. CEPEDA DERIEUX (202) 663-6000 RYAN CHABOT seth.waxman@wilmerhale.com WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP MARK C. FLEMING 7 World Trade Center WILMER CUTLER PICKERING 250 Greenwich Street HALE AND DORR LLP New York, NY 10007 60 State Street Boston, MA 02109 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page py Li Nye sy yg | reece il INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE ...........0...cc cece, l EASA Sy SO RRS yA REY VMTN TENE l A. January Executive Order ....................ccceecssesneees l TD. ETD BETO CIID cccccccnccectnsnsccevnsvcsscnscesisocves 3 iy.” GU ie III, 5. scnteosineenendnsenssuness 5 D. This Court’s June 26 Order...........c:ccceeeecceecceee- 5 EK. Implementation Of The March Executive SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT................0.--.ccceccsssecceseeces. 8 ae IEE Aa Me Ae MO a ae NAN PON Sa Be bot 10 1. MOOTNESS Is A THRESHOLD JURISDICTIONAL ISSUE THAT Must Br ADDRESSED BEFORE THE MERITS ..........cccccecceececes 10 Il. THESE APPEALS WILL BE MooT BEFORE (OR VERY SHORTLY AFTER) THE CouRT PEICA RS CORAL, ARGU IIIIIGG cccscccsccccececccccoecccccncccssccecscces 11 1H1. THE Writs OF CERTIORARI SHOULD BE DISMISSED WITHOUT VACATING THE STE I SOT eT: 19 RIT i siciascitaconsiigccuasineentesiileanesenieleghevaientiniaeouiaesbibbiaes 23 ii TABLE OF AUTHORITIES CASES Page(s) ACLU vy. Clapper, 804 F.3d 617 (2d Cir. 2015).............. 15 Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Haworth, 300 U.S. | ___R E E RAN ES SeR Nn a e 10 Alejandrino v. Quezon, 271 U.S. 528 (1926)..........ccc000 11 Allen v. Wright, 468 U.S. 737 (1984).......ccescecsereeeseeeerees 10 Alvarez v. Smith, 558 U.S. 87 (2009) .......ccccccccceccosceeeeees 20 American Federation of Government Employ- ees, AFL-CIO v. Carmen, 669 F.2d 815 Se Te IED nctebscsnonsnetnctnedetnicutmascnnsenmiteeisesvvsmnensseses 14 Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, Se ee I diccnesenmeanennesstascscdninssonapntintsinierseconinen 10 Boston Firefighters Union Local 718 v. Boston Chapter NAACP, Inc., 468 U.S. 1206 (1984)........... 10 Burke v. Barnes, 479 U.S. 361 (1987) ........cccceeeneees 11, 18 City of Erie v. Pap’s A.M., 529 U.S. 277 (2000)............ 10 City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, 461 U.S. 95 (1983) .....17, 18 County of Los Angeles v. Davis, 440 U.S. 625 ITE ciasniceinredemnevaciissnessnaainaaihapieiindineaniiieiesiiastiindinbenie 10 Dames & Moore v. Regan, 453 U.S. 654 (1981)... 22 Darr v. Burford, 339 U.S. 200 (1950) ........ccccccsceseseeseeeeees 15 Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., 551 U.S. 449 (2007)........ccccc0000 17 Fortson v. Toombs, 379 U.S. 621 (1965) .........cccecceeceeeeee 18 iil TABLE OF AUTHORITIES—Continued Page(s) Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Envi- ronmental Services (TOC), Inc., 528 U.S. a iiss chinsikintchnciinhiaditnensinbactdateustanensouacamininnacidiit 18 Hall v. Beals, 396 U.S. 45 (1969) ..........cccccccccccssosersees 11, 18 Hawaii v. Trump, 859 F.3d 741 (9th Cir. 2017) .............. 4 Hohn v. United States, 524 U.S. 236 (1998).................. 21 Honig v. Students of California School for the Ee Se te i iittitcte ss ctcisententenetensssccapsines 11 International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump, 857 F.3d 554 (4th Cir. 2017)............ ce ceeeeeeees 4 Izumi Seimitsu. Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha v. U.S. Philips Corp., 510 U.S. 27 (1998)... 20 Liner v. Jafco, Inc., 375 U.S. 301 (19G64).........cccccersssseees 10 Local No. 8-6, Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union, AFL-CIO v. BORDOUITE, TE UF Tis Se CID wince enccesccsccsvececcsnsccescees 11 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Pg Be LR SR ence eneenp 10 North Carolina v. Rice, 404 U.S. 244 (1971) ...........0.2... 10 Rendell v. Rumsfeld, 484 F.3d 236 (8d Cir. SUIT iiacictnietsncadacanieihaniadidiacatpasehadhiariaascbnienintaiaiipaiien 18, 19 South Spring Hill Gold Mining Co. v. Amador Medean Gold Mining Co., 145 U.S. 300 SENET snisinsictinedenciilahindsbabiniemtenuntibendameinesebioheneelsndbeaniionianses 19 Super Tire Engineering Co. v. McCorkle, Se Se I E eeterisanchsectninienneuinidtatenircnennianinsaneniiassin 18 iv TABLE OF AUTHORITIES—Continued Page(s) Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project, 137 S. Ct. 2080 (2017) «...---.-se0esereees 5, 6, 15, 22 U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership, 513 U.S. 18 (1994).......+-0+ 19, 20, 21, 23 United States v. Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien Gesellschaft, 239 US. ABE (1916) ....cecsccesecceccecsesecsnscsneecsssenernesnnessnneeneenemncneneses 19 United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. BE (1950) ......sescesseeccescesrerssseserserssnsseanensenssnenss 1, 9, 19, 22 United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 a 22 University of Texas v. Camenisch, 451 U.S. 390 (1981) ....ccccccscssssssessssecsersceenensnssnsnsnenssssenenenenensnnensnensess 11 Washington v. Trump, 2017 WL 462040 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 3, 2017) ......-.-:cssseeeeenennenenrenseseen cree 2 Washington v. Trump, 847 F.3d 1151 (9th Cir. SII a a ei — wom —_ — : <— PA ee ! . : ek nee Sa alan oll —* ‘ : = 7 - ee ee ee a eee: bay Pe ne as 5 ne re ee ey APPENDICES la APPENDIX AMICI CURIAE SCHOLARS OF FEDERAL JURISDICTION This Appendix provides amici’s titles and institution- al affiliations for identification purposes only. The list- ing of these affiliations does not imply any endorsement of the view expressed herein by amici’s institutions. William D. Araiza Professor of Law Brooklyn Law School Karen M. Blum Research Professor of Law Suffolk University Law School Joanne C. Brant Professor of Law Ohio Northern University Claude W. Petit College of Law Zachary D. Clopton Assistant Professor of Law Cornell Law School Brooke D. Coleman Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Research & Faculty Development Seattle University School of Law Frank Deale Professor of Law CUNY Law School Paul R. Dubinsky Professor of Law Wayne State University Law School 2a Amanda Frost Professor of Law American University Washington College of Law Maryellen Fullerton Professor of Law Brooklyn Law School Jonathan M. Gutoff Professor of Law Roger Williams University School of Law Harold J. Krent Dean and Professor of Law Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law Alexandra D. Lahav Ellen Ash Peters Professor University of Connecticut School of Law David S. Law Charles Nagel Chair of Constitutional Law and Political Science Washington University School of Law Evan Lee Professor of Law University of California-Hastings College of the Law Toni M. Massaro Regents’ Professor, Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law, and Dean Emerita University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law Lumen Mulligan Associate Dean for Faculty Earl B. Shurtz Research Professor of Law University of Kansas School of Law 3a Yxta Maya Murray Professor of Law Loyola Law School Deborah Pearlstein Professor of Law Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University Gowri Ramachandran Professor of Law Southwestern Law School Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes Vinson & Elkins Research Professor & Professor of Law South Texas College of Law Houston Caprice Roberts Professor of Law Savannah Law School Kermit Roosevelt Professor of Law University of Pennsylvania Law School Lawrence Sager Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair University of Texas School of Law Elizabeth M. Schneider Rose L. Hoffer Professor of Law Brooklyn Law School Eric J. Segall Kathy and Lawrence Ashe Professor of Law Georgia State University College of Law Joan M. Shaughnessy Roger D. Groot Professor of Law Washington and Lee University School of Law 4a Andrew Siegel Associate Professor of Law and Faculty Fellow, Fred C. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality Seattle University Schoo} of Law Joan Steinman University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law ilinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College ot Law Carl Tobias Williams Chair in Law University of Richmond School of Law Stephen I. Vladeck Professor of Law University of Texas School of Law Howard M. Wasserman Professor of Law F1U College of Law Amy J. Wildermuth Professor of Law University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/brief%3Amicro_IA40385016_0753%3A103. Public record. Not legal advice.