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18‐1691‐cv

Knight First Amendment Institute, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al.

United States Court of Appeals 

FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second

Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley

Square, in the City of New York, on the 23rd day of March, two thousand twenty.

PRESENT:

    ROBERT A. KATZMANN,

    Chief Judge,

    JOSÉ A. CABRANES,

    ROSEMARY S. POOLER,

    PETER W. HALL,

DENNY CHIN,

    RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR.,

    RICHARD J. SULLIVAN,

    JOSEPH F. BIANCO,

    MICHAEL H. PARK,

    Circuit Judges.

KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE  

AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, REBECCA

BUCKWALTER, PHILIP COHEN, HOLLY  

FIGUEROA, EUGENE GU, BRANDON NEELY,

JOSEPH PAPP, and NICHOLAS PAPPAS,

Plaintiffs‐Appellees,

    v.             No. 18‐1691‐cv

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE  

UNITED STATES and DANIEL SCAVINO,  

WHITE HOUSE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL MEDIA

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AND ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT,

    Defendants‐Appellants,

SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE

PRESS SECRETARY,

    Defendant.

For Plaintiffs‐Appellees: Jameel Jaffer (Katherine Fallow,

Caroline DeCell, Alexander Abdo,

Meenakshi Krishnan, on the brief),

Knight First Amendment Institute at

Columbia University, New York, NY,

Jessica Ring Amunson (Tassity

Johnson, Tali R. Leinwand, on the

brief), Jenner & Block, Washington,

D.C.

For Defendants‐Appellants: Jennifer Utrecht (Scott McIntosh, on

the brief), Attorneys, Appellate Staff,

Civil Division, for Joseph H. Hunt,

Assistant Attorney General, Hashim

M. Mooppan, Deputy Assistant

Attorney General, Washington, D.C.

Following disposition of this appeal on July 9, 2019, an active judge of the

Court requested a poll on whether to rehear the case en banc. A poll having been

conducted and there being no majority favoring en banc review, rehearing en banc

is hereby DENIED.

Barrington D. Parker, Circuit Judge, filed a statement with respect to the

denial of rehearing en banc.

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Michael H. Park, Circuit Judge, joined by Richard J. Sullivan, Circuit Judge,

dissents by opinion from the denial of rehearing en banc.  

Debra Ann Livingston and Susan L. Carney, Circuit Judges, took no part in

the consideration or decision of this petition.

FOR THE COURT:  

CATHERINE O’HAGAN WOLFE, CLERK   

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