McAleenan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 AL OTRO LADO, Inc., et al., Case No. 17-cv-02366-BAS-KSC

Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING MOTION

FOR LEAVE TO FILE BRIEF

v. AS AMICI CURIAE CHAD F. WOLF, et. al., (ECF No. 602) 15 Defendants. 16 Before the Court is a motion for leave to file a brief as amici curiae (“Motion”) in connection with Plaintiffs’ pending motion for summary judgment. (ECF No. 602.) Movants are The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinical Program, and Boston University School of Law Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program (“Proposed Amici”). Defendants have not consented to filing an amicus brief after October 27, 2020, but the Proposed Amici state that because of delays caused by COVID-19 and other litigation, they were unable to submit the brief by that deadline. “The district court has broad discretion to appoint amici curiae.” Hoptowit v. Ray, 682 F.2d 1237, 1260 (9th Cir. 1982), abrogated on other grounds…