Humanitarian Law Project v. United States Department Of Justice

393 F.3d 902 HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT; Ralph Fertig; Ilankai Thamil Sangam; Tamils of Northern California; Tamil Welfare and Human Rights Committee; Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America; World Tamil Coordinating Committee; Nagalingam Jeyalingam, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; United States Department of State; John Ashcroft, Attorney General; Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants. No. 02-44082. No. 02-44083. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted December 14, 2004. Filed December 21, 2004. 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,…