Dean Johnson Files Amici Brief in Ninth Circuit DACA Rescission Appeal

Several immigration law professors, including Dean Kevin R. Johnson, filed an amici curiae brief, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit appeal by the Trump administration of a district court injunction barring the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. 

The amici, in alphabetical order included:

• Jennifer M. Chacón, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, the University of California, Irvine, School of Law
• Kevin R. Johnson, Dean, the University of California, Davis, School of Law
• Stephen H. Legomsky, John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis 
• Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law
• Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law, the University of Houston Law Center
• Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar, Clinical Professor of Law, the Pennsylvania State Law School.

The Ninth Circuit will hear oral arguments in the case in May. Steptoe Johnson LLP was counsel for the professors and filed the brief.

Kevin R. Johnson is Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o studies at UC Davis School of Law. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.