Opinion
No. 08-15693.
October 27, 2009.
Steven M. Watt, Benjamin Elihu Wizner, ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Julia Harumi Mass, ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Douglas Neal Letter, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Intervenor-Appellee.
Daniel Paul Collins, Henry Weissmann, Munger, Tolles Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellee.
Barbara Moses, Esquire, David J. Stankiewicz, Esquire, Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason Anello Bohrer, PC, New York, NY, Jonathan Hafetz, Esquire, Aziz Huq, Esquire, New York, NY, for Former United States Diplomats.
Jean-Paul Jassy, Gary L. Bostwick, Bostwick Jassy LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for William G. Weaver, Robert Pallitto.
James M. Ringer, Esquire, New York, NY, for Commonwealth Lawyers Association, Justice.
William J. Aceves, Esquire, California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA, for Redress, International Commission of Jurists.
Andrew G. McBride, Esquire, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC, for The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Richard Abbott Samp, Chief Counsel, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, for Washington Legal Foundation, Allied Educational Foundation.
ORDER
Upon the vote of a majority of nonrecused active judges, it is ordered that this case be reheard en banc pursuant to Circuit Rule 35-3. The three-judge panel opinion shall not be cited as precedent by or to any court of the Ninth Circuit.
Judges REINHARDT, McKEOWN, GOULD, BYBEE, MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and IKUTA did not participate in the deliberations or vote in this case.