"East Bay IV" Begins Again, In Earnest -- Whether Asylum Seekers Have The Right -- To EFFECTIVELY Petition In The Courts... For Their Rights.

The Ninth Circuit has returned the East Bay Sanctuary class action case (one of dozens of backgrounders, here) to the capable USDC Judge Jon Tigar, to consider whether the plaintiff has "organizational standing" to advocate on behalf of people who mostly speak no English, are/were not educated in the niceties of our byzantine legal system -- and in the main, are struggling mightily just to feed and clothe themselves in a foreign land.

To be clear, Tangerine 2.0's (largely impotent) black Magic Marker scribbles would claim that these folks must each individually bring a complicated case in the federal courts of downtown San Francisco if they want to have ANY rights, in the US. That won't do.

That is certainly not what the fine Lazarus prose -- on the base of Lady Liberty contemplates. . . and it is not the way we've understood human rights since at least the victories won, in the 1960s civil rights movement. Here's the latest reopening this case -- we will call it East Bay IV:

. . .The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has remanded this case for further proceedings and directed the Court to consider (1) organ- izational standing in light of Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, 602 U.S. 367 (2024), and (2) the impact of Executive Order 14165 § 7(a)–(b). ECF No. 205 at 7–8. The parties shall meet and confer and, no later than April 28, 2025, file a joint statement containing a joint proposal or competing proposals, including scheduling, regarding how this case should proceed on remand.

The Clerk is directed to re-open this case.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 14, 2025. . . .

As a wise and seasoned federal judge (who had greatly protected an entire class of asylum seekers in Tangerine 1.0's time in office -- 2017-20), I trust Judge Tigar will come to a just resolution here -- as he well-knows all humans present in our land, howsoever they may have arrived, are entitled to an effective means of asserting their collective rights / receiving due process -- but what, and how much. . . "process" is actually. . . and practically. . ."due"?

I trust him to sort all that out, equitably.

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