PRIOR HISTORY:  Humanitarian Law Project v. Reno, 9 F.Supp.2d 1205 (C.D.Cal. Jun 15, 1998) (No. CV 98-1971 ABC (BQRX)

Judgment affirmed by:  Humanitarian Law Project v. Reno, 205 F.3d 1130 (9th Cir.(Cal.) Mar. 3, 2000) (No. 98-56062, 98-56280)

Certiorari denied by:  Humanitarian Law Project v. Ashcroft, 532 U.S. 904 (Mar. 5, 2001) (No. 00-910)

Certiorari denied by:  Ashcroft v. Humanitarian Law Project, 532 U.S. 904 ( Mar 05, 2001) (No. 00-1077)

On subsequent appeal:  Humanitarian Law Project v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, 352 F.3d 382 (9th Cir.(Cal.) Dec. 3, 2003) (No. 02-55082, 02-55083)

Rehearing en banc granted by:  Humanitarian Law Project v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, 382 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. Sep. 8, 2004) (No. 02-55082, 02-55083)

 

SUBSEQUENT HISTORY:  Judgment affirmed by:  Humanitarian Law Project v. Reno, 205 F.3d 1130 (9th Cir.(Cal.) Mar. 3, 2000) (No. 98-56062, 98-56280)

Certiorari denied by:  Humanitarian Law Project v. Ashcroft, 532 U.S. 904 (Mar. 5, 2001) (No. 00-910)

Certiorari denied by:  532 U.S. 904 (Mar. 5, 2001) (No. 00-1077)

On subsequent appeal:  Humanitarian Law Project v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, 352 F.3d 382 (9th Cir.(Cal.) Dec. 3, 2003) (No. 02-55082, 02-55083)

Rehearing en banc granted by:  Humanitarian Law Project v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, 382 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. Sep. 8, 2004) (No. 02-55082, 02-55083)

Judgment vacated on rehearing by:  Humanitarian Law Project v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, 393 F.3d 902 (9th Cir.(Cal.) Dec. 21, 2004) (No. 02-55082, 02-55083)

On remand to:  Humanitarian Law Project v. Gonzales, 380 F.Supp.2d 1134 (C.D.Cal. Jul. 25, 2005) (No. CV98-1971ABCRCX, CV03-6107ABCRCX)

Distinguished by:  U.S. v. Assi, ––– F.Supp.2d –––, 2006 WL 335891 (E.D.Mich. Feb. 10, 2006) (No. 98-80695)

 

RELATED REFERENCES:  Humanitarian Law Project v. Ashcroft, 2004 WL 112760 (C.D.Cal. Jan 22, 2004) (NO. CV 03-6107 ABC)

Opinion amended and superseded by:  Humanitarian Law Project v. Ashcroft, 309 F.Supp.2d 1185 (C.D.Cal. Mar 17, 2004) (NO. CV03-6107 ABC(MCX))

 

COUNSEL:  David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Nancy Chang, Center For Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, for the plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees.

Douglas N. Letter, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees-cross-appellants.

Stephen P. Berzon, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA; Abbe David Lowell, Chadbourne & Parke LLP, Washington, DC; Jack Dicanio, Proskauer Rose, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for amicus Roya Rahmani.

Jameel Jaffer, Ann Beeson and Melissa Goodman, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for amicus American Civil Liberties Union, et al.

 

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Audrey B. Collins, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-98- 01971-ABC.

 

JUDGES:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, KOZINSKI, KLEINFELD, THOMAS, GRABER, McKEOWN, WARDLAW, GOULD, TALLMAN, CALLAHAN, and BEA, Circuit Judges.

 

 

ORDER

 

With respect to the appellants’ First Amendment challenge to sections 302 and 303 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, we affirm the district court’s order dated October 2, 2001, for the reasons set out in Humanitarian Law Project v. Reno, 205 F.3d 1130 (9th Cir.2000). [FN1] In light of Congress’s recent amendment to the challenged statute, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Pub. L. No. 108-458, 118 Stat. 3638, we affirm the judgment in part, as set forth above, vacate the judgment and injunction regarding the terms “personnel” and “training,” and remand to the district court for further proceedings, if any, as appropriate. We decline to reach any other issue urged by the parties.

 

FN1. Humanitarian Law Project v. United States Department of Justice, 352 F.3d 382 (9th Cir.2003), is vacated.

 

The parties shall bear their own costs on appeal.

 

 

Appellate Briefs

 

•  Reply Brief for the Appellees/Cross-Appellants (Nov. 8, 2002)

 

•  Plaintiffs’ Appellants’ Reply Brief and Brief of Cross-Appellees (Oct. 4, 2002)

 

•  Brief for the Appellees/Cross-Appellants (Aug. 5, 2002)

 

•  Plaintiffs’ Opening Brief on Cross-Appeal (Jun. 3, 2002)