• Padilla v. Yoo

    Publication Date: 2012-05-02
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Jeffrey S. White, District Judge, Presiding Before: Raymond C. Fisher and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, District Judge.*,**
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan M. Freiman (argued), Hope R. Metcalf, Tahlia Townsend and Amos E. Friedland, New Haven, Connecticut; Natalie L. Bridgeman, San Francisco, California, for the appellees. Paul J. Orfanedes, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Judicial Watch, Inc.
    for defendant: Miguel A. Estrada (argued) and Scott P. Martin, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C., for the appellant. Michael F. Hertz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Barbara L. Herwig and Robert M. Loeb, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae United States. Peter B. Ellis and Usha-Kiran K. Ghia, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, for amici curiae Bruce Fein, Roberts B. Owen and Michael P. Scharf. Eric L. Lewis, Baach Robinson & Lewis PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth A. Wilson, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, for amici curiae Distinguished Professors of Constitutional and Federal Courts Law. Hamid Jabbar, Scottsdale, Arizona; Hirad D. Dadgostar, Los Angeles, California; Dawinder S. Sidhu, Potomac, Maryland, for amici curiae Legal Ethics Scholars.

    Case Number: No. 09-16478

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 4875 JOSE PADILLA and ESTELA LEBRON, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. JOHN YOO, Defendant-Ap