{"ID":63279,"name":"Mayorkas v. Innovation Law Lab","href":"https:\/\/api.oyez.org\/cases\/2020\/19-1212","view_count":0,"docket_number":"19-1212","additional_docket_numbers":null,"manner_of_jurisdiction":"Writ of \u003Ci\u003Ecertiorari\u003C\/i\u003E","first_party":"Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al.","second_party":"Innovation Law Lab, et al.","timeline":[{"event":"Granted","dates":[1603083600],"href":"https:\/\/api.oyez.org\/case_timeline\/case_timeline\/54775"}],"lower_court":{"ID":5,"name":"United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit","href":"https:\/\/api.oyez.org\/taxonomy\/term\/5"},"facts_of_the_case":"\u003Cp\u003EIn December 2018, the Trump administration announced its \u201cremain in Mexico\u201d policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, which required certain asylum seekers arriving by land at the U.S.\/Mexico border to wait in Mexico while their case was pending in the U.S. immigration court system.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVarious human and immigrant rights groups asked the federal courts to suspend enforcement of the policy, arguing that it violated federal and international law. A district court entered a preliminary injunction setting aside the policy, and the Government appealed. On appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court, holding that the policy was likely inconsistent with both federal immigration law and the doctrine of international law barring the return of asylum seekers to countries where they may be in danger. In March, the day before the Ninth Circuit\u2019s order would have gone into effect, the Supreme Court granted a request from the Trump administration to lift the stay and allow officials to enforce the policy while litigation continued to the Supreme Court.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn its petition seeking the Supreme Court\u2019s review, the administration asked the Supreme Court to review not only the merits of the Ninth Circuit\u2019s ruling, but also whether the district court had the authority to issue its nationwide injunction in the first place.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","question":"\u003Cp\u003E1. Does the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the \u201cremain in Mexico\u201dpolicy, violate federal immigration law?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E2. Did the district court have the authority to issue a universal preliminary injunction in this case?\u003C\/p\u003E\n","conclusion":null,"advocates":null,"oral_argument_audio":null,"citation":{"volume":null,"page":null,"year":null,"href":"https:\/\/api.oyez.org\/case_citation\/case_citation\/27772"},"decisions":null,"first_party_label":"Petitioner","second_party_label":"Respondent","heard_by":[null],"decided_by":null,"term":"2020","location":null,"opinion_announcement":null,"description":"A case in which the Court will rule on the legality of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cremain in Mexico\u201d policy.","written_opinion":null,"related_cases":null,"justia_url":"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/2020\/19-1212\/","argument2_url":null}