United States v. Afshari

426 F.3d 1150 UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Inc; the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Intervenors, v. Hossein AFSHARI, aka Hosseini Deklami; Mohammad Omidvar; Hassan Rezaie; Roya Rahmani, aka Sister Tahmineh; Navid Taj, aka Najaf Eshkoftegi; Mustafa Ahmady; Alireza Mohamad Moradi, Defendants-Appellees. No. 02-50355. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted September 9, 2003. Filed October 20, 2005. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the appellant. Stephen P. Berzon, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, for the appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Robert M. Takasugi, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CR-01-00209-RMT. Before: KLEINFELD, WARDLAW, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge: 1 We review the constitutionality of a statute prohibiting financial support to organizations designated as "terrorist." Facts 2 The issue here is the constitutionality of…