Akin Gump Again Serves as Lead Pro Bono Counsel on U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Travel Ban Litigation
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(Washington, D.C.) – Akin Gump served as lead pro bono counsel again today on an amicus brief filed in the United States Supreme Court in the Muslim travel ban litigation. The amicus group includes the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, the children of litigants who challenged orders that led to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, civil rights organizations and national bar associations of color. The brief supports legal challenges to the Trump administration’s Presidential Proclamation, titled “Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats.” The case, to be argued April 25, is Trump v. State of Hawaii, No. 17-965.
Lead pro bono counsel Pratik Shah, co-head of Akin Gump’s Supreme Court and appellate practice, said, “This Court should reject the government’s invitation to abdicate its role in our constitutional system and should subject the President’s exclusion decision to meaningful judicial scrutiny—lest history repeat itself, as Justice Jackson’s prophetic dissent warned in Korematsu.”
Akin Gump corporate partner Alice Hsu led the Akin Gump team on behalf of the amici. She was joined by Mr. Shah and litigation partner Robert Johnson, senior counsel Jessica Weisel, counsel Martine Cicconi and associates Elizabeth Rosen, Daniella Roseman and Nathaniel Botwinick; and corporate law clerk Elizabeth Atkins.
To read the brief in its entirety, please click here.
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