Case Western Reserve Law Review Publishes Akin Gump Article on SCOTUS Travel Ban Brief

Case Western Reserve Law Review has published “Stop Repeating History: The Story of an Amicus Brief and Its Lessons for Engaging in Strategic Advocacy, Coalition Building, and Education,” which tells the story of how a team of pro bono attorneys at Akin Gump came to be involved with an amicus brief that was filed in the Supreme Court case Trump v. Hawaii.

In the article, corporate partner Alice Hsu, litigation partner emeritus Robert Johnson and litigation associate Elizabeth Rosen, along with a former associate at the firm and the executive director of Seattle University’s Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, discuss the brief challenging the Trump administration’s “various iterations of the Muslim travel and refugee ban.” They detail how Akin Gump first became involved with the brief and the strategy employed in writing it, which was to compare the travel ban with the “mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II” that was ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

While the decision in the case did not as the authors had hoped, they suggest that readers decide for themselves “if the lessons contained in [the brief] are worth learning and then decide what it is that they might do to stop our various institutions from repeating past mistakes.”

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