Opinion ID: 4510461
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Plaintiffs’ 2017 Byrne Grant Awards

Text: On June 26, 2018, DOJ applied the Byrne Program formula to award the plaintiff States Byrne grants totaling $25 million—subject to their acceptance of the three immigration‐related conditions at issue. As to New York City, DOJ reiterated, in both October 2017 and January 2018, the concerns it had first expressed in 2016, i.e., that certain of the City’s laws or policies appeared to violate § 1373, which could render it ineligible for Byrne grants. See supra at n.14. In response to these DOJ actions, the plaintiff States and City filed the instant related actions, challenging, inter alia, the Certification, Notice, and Access Conditions for 2017 Byrne grants as violative of both the APA and the Constitution.