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1Scan for outdated or missing drivers - takes under a minute2Clear out junk files and repair common Windows errors3Fix the driver behind crashes, sound loss and screen glitchesOn February 5, 2017, 97 numbered amici were listed in a Ninth Circuit brief opposing the Trump administration’s request to pause a court order blocking enforcement of the administration’s immigration ban. The companies did not file a lawsuit as plaintiffs: they submitted an amicus brief in support of the appellees in State of Washington v. Donald J. Trump, Ninth Circuit No. 17-35105. The list below follows Appendix A of the filing, including its duplicate listing of Turn Inc.
What the companies filed—and what they argued
The document, titled Brief of Technology Companies and Other Businesses as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellees, was filed February 5, 2017. Its amici asked the Ninth Circuit to accept their brief in support of the appellees’ opposition to the government’s emergency motion for a stay pending appeal. BGR published its contemporaneous list article on February 6, 2017.
The brief said the January 27, 2017 executive order, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” affected the amici’s operations. Its arguments were that immigration supports innovation and economic growth, that the order harmed U.S. companies’ competitiveness, and that the order was unlawful. The amici argued that it discriminated on the basis of nationality and represented an arbitrary exercise of discretion; these were the brief’s claims, not findings by the court.
The brief said: “The Order makes it more difficult and expensive for U.S. companies to recruit, hire, and retain some of the world’s best employees.” It also argued that the order made recruiting and retention less predictable, disrupted business operations, and threatened companies’ ability to attract talent, business, and investment. The filing did not quantify those claimed effects, so the list should not be read as a measure of the ban’s economic impact.
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Full list of amici in Appendix A
The Ninth Circuit brief numbers 97 entries. The appendix lists Turn Inc. twice, at numbers 87 and 90; accordingly, 97 is the number of numbered entries, not 97 distinct names.
- AdRoll, Inc.
- Aeris Communications, Inc.
- Airbnb, Inc.
- AltSchool, PBC
- Ancestry.com, LLC
- Appboy, Inc.
- Apple Inc.
- AppNexus Inc.
- Asana, Inc.
- Atlassian Corp Plc
- Autodesk, Inc.
- Automattic Inc.
- Box, Inc.
- Brightcove Inc.
- Brit + Co
- CareZone Inc.
- Castlight Health
- Checkr, Inc.
- Chobani, LLC
- Citrix Systems, Inc.
- Cloudera, Inc.
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- Copia Institute
- DocuSign, Inc.
- DoorDash, Inc.
- Dropbox, Inc.
- Dynatrace LLC
- eBay Inc.
- Engine Advocacy
- Etsy Inc.
- Facebook, Inc.
- Fastly, Inc.
- Flipboard, Inc.
- Foursquare Labs, Inc.
- Fuze, Inc.
- General Assembly
- GitHub
- Glassdoor, Inc.
- Google Inc.
- GoPro, Inc.
- Harmonic Inc.
- Hipmunk, Inc.
- Indiegogo, Inc.
- Intel Corporation
- JAND, Inc. d/b/a Warby Parker
- Kargo Global, Inc.
- Kickstarter, PBC
- KIND, LLC
- Knotel
- Levi Strauss & Co.
- LinkedIn Corporation
- Lithium Technologies, Inc.
- Lyft, Inc.
- Mapbox, Inc.
- Maplebear Inc. d/b/a Instacart
- Marin Software Incorporated
- Medallia, Inc.
- A Medium Corporation
- Meetup, Inc.
- Microsoft Corporation
- Motivate International Inc.
- Mozilla Corporation
- Netflix, Inc.
- NETGEAR, Inc.
- NewsCred, Inc.
- Patreon, Inc.
- PayPal Holdings, Inc.
- Pinterest, Inc.
- Quora, Inc.
- Reddit, Inc.
- Rocket Fuel Inc.
- SaaStr Inc.
- Salesforce.com, Inc.
- Scopely, Inc.
- Shutterstock, Inc.
- Snap Inc.
- Spokeo, Inc.
- Spotify USA Inc.
- Square, Inc.
- Squarespace, Inc.
- Strava, Inc.
- Stripe, Inc.
- SurveyMonkey Inc.
- TaskRabbit, Inc
- Tech:NYC
- Thumbtack, Inc.
- Turn Inc.
- Twilio Inc.
- Twitter Inc.
- Turn Inc.
- Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Via
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
- Workday
- Y Combinator Management, LLC
- Yelp Inc.
- Zynga Inc.
What the list does—and does not—show
The filing records which organizations joined this particular 2017 brief and the arguments they presented to the appeals court. It does not establish that every listed organization made every argument independently, quantify effects on the companies, or document their later positions. It is a historical court filing, not evidence of current corporate views or current immigration policy.
Primary documents: Ninth Circuit amicus brief and motion, No. 17-35105; Ninth Circuit docket entry 19. For contemporaneous coverage, see BGR’s February 6, 2017 article.
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