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The Honorable James L. Robart

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
AT SEATTLE

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Plaintiffs,

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v.
DONALD TRUMP, et al.,

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Defendants.
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES, et al.,

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CASE NO. C17-0178JLR

JOHN DOE, et al.,

CASE NO. C17-1707JLR

Plaintiffs,
(RELATING TO CASE NO. C17-0178JLR)

v.
DONALD TRUMP, et al.,

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Defendants.

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DOE PLAINTIFFS’ SURREPLY TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
AND DISSOLVE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AS MOOT

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DOE PLS.’ SURREPLY TO
DEFS.’ MOT. TO DISMISS
AND DISSOLVE PRELIM. INJ.
AS MOOT
(2:17-cv-00178-JLR)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
901 Fifth Avenue, Sui te 630
Seattle, W A 98164
Tel.: (206) 624-2184

K E L L E R R O H R B AC K

L.L.P.

1201 Third A venue, Suite 3200
Seattle, W A 98101-3052
Tel: (206) 623-1900
Fax: (206) 623-3384

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Doe Plaintiffs file this Surreply respectfully requesting the Court strike the argument
raised in Section IV of Defendants’ Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss and Dissolve
Preliminary Injunction as Moot (“Defendants’ Reply”) at 16-17, Dkt. # 150.
Defendants’ Reply includes an entire section in the argument portion of their brief
entitled “The President of the United States Should be Dismissed as a Named Defendant.” Id.
Yet, there was no section in Defendants’ original Motion raising this issue. Compare Table of
Contents of Defs.’ Mot. to Dismiss and Dissolve Prelim. Inj. as Moot (“Motion”) at ii, Dkt. #
145, with Table of Contents of Defendants’ Reply at ii. The only mention of the possibility of
dismissing President Trump as a defendant is in footnote 4 of the Motion at the end of the
conclusion of their brief. Motion at 14 n.4.
It is well settled that “[courts] review only issues which are argued specifically and
distinctly in a party's opening brief. . . . [A] bare assertion does not preserve a claim.”
Greenwood v. FAA, 28 F.3d 971, 977 (9th Cir. 1994). Raising an issue in a footnote clearly does
not suffice and results in the waiver of the claim. See, e.g., Recycle for Change v. City of
Oakland, 856 F.3d 666, 673 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 138 S. Ct. 557 (2017) (finding argument
waived because it was not raised in the brief other than in a footnote); City of Emeryville v.
Robinson, 621 F.3d 1251, 1262 n.10 (9th Cir. 2010) (holding that “[b]y failing to address the
issue in its opening brief except in a footnote,” party waived its claim); Acosta-Huerta v. Estelle,
7 F.3d 139, 144 (9th Cir. 1992) (contentions raised only in a footnote in an opening brief are
deemed abandoned). The Ninth Circuit has held that issues which are not argued specifically and
distinctly in a party’s opening brief, especially where a host of other issues are raised, will not be
reviewed. City of Emeryville, 621 F.3d at 1262 n.10 (citing Greenwood, 28 F.3d. at 977).
Defendants raised a host of other issues in their Motion but failed to properly raise the
issue of whether President Trump should be dismissed as a defendant. Having failed to properly
raise the issue at the outset, Defendants cannot now raise this argument for the first time in their

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DOE PLS.’ SURREPLY TO
DEFS.’ MOT. TO DISMISS
AND DISSOLVE PRELIM. INJ.
AS MOOT - 1
Case No. 2:17-cv-00178-JLR

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
901 Fifth Avenue, Sui te 630
Seattle, W A 98164
Tel.: (206) 624-2184

K E L L E R R O H R B AC K

L.L.P.

1201 Third A venue, Suite 3200
Seattle, W A 98101-3052
Tel.: (206) 623-1900
Fax: (206) 623-3384

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Reply. Tile Tech, Inc. v. Appian Way Sales, Inc., No. C17-1660JLR, 2018 WL 2113958, at *4
(W.D. Wash. May 8, 2018) (citing Zamani v. Carnes, 491 F.3d 990, 997 (9th Cir. 2007); see also
United States v. Puerta, 982 F.2d 1297, 1300 n.1 (9th Cir. 1992) (“New arguments may not be
introduced in a reply brief.”). Pursuant to LCR 7(e)(3), Defendants had twenty-four pages for
their Motion but used only fourteen of those pages. Defendants had ample additional room in
their Motion to fully address this issue but they chose not to raise it as an actual argument,
instead including it as a mere aside in a footnote at the end of their conclusion. They should not
now be allowed to insert an entire section in their Reply for the first time.
For the reasons stated in this Surreply, Plaintiffs request the Court strike Section IV of
Defendants’ Reply in its entirety.

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DOE PLS.’ SURREPLY TO
DEFS.’ MOT. TO DISMISS
AND DISSOLVE PRELIM. INJ.
AS MOOT - 2
Case No. 2:17-cv-00178-JLR

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
901 Fifth Avenue, Sui te 630
Seattle, W A 98164
Tel.: (206) 624-2184

K E L L E R R O H R B AC K

L.L.P.

1201 Third A venue, Suite 3200
Seattle, W A 98101-3052
Tel.: (206) 623-1900
Fax: (206) 623-3384

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DATED this 3rd day of July, 2018.
KELLER ROHRBACK L.L.P.

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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
By: /s/ Emily Chiang
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/s/ Lisa Nowlin
Emily Chiang, WSBA # 50517
Lisa Nowlin, WSBA # 51512
901 Fifth Avenue, Suite 630
Seattle, WA 98164
Tel.: (206) 624-2184
Email: echiang@aclu-wa.org
lnowlin@aclu-wa.org
Attorneys for Plaintiffs

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By: /s/ Lynn Lincoln Sarko
By: /s/ Tana Lin
By: /s/ Amy Williams-Derry
By: /s/ Derek W. Loeser
By: /s/ Alison S. Gaffney
Lynn Lincoln Sarko, WSBA # 16569
Tana Lin, WSBA # 35271
Amy Williams-Derry, WSBA # 28711
Derek W. Loeser, WSBA # 24274
Alison S. Gaffney, WSBA # 45565
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3200
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel.: (206) 623-1900
Fax: (206) 623-3384
Email: lsarko@kellerrohrback.com
tlin@kellerrohrback.com
awilliams-derry@kellerrohrback.com
dloeser@kellerrohrback.com
agaffney@kellerrohrback.com
By: /s/ Laurie B. Ashton
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Laurie B. Ashton (admitted pro hac vice)
3101 North Central Avenue, Suite 1400
Phoenix, AZ 85012-2600
Tel.: (602) 248-0088
Fax: (602) 248-2822
Email: lashton@kellerrohrback.com

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By: /s/ Alison Chase
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Alison Chase (admitted pro hac vice)
1129 State Street, Suite 8
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Tel.: (805) 456-1496
Fax: (805) 456-1497
Email: achase@kellerrohrback.com

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Attorneys for Plaintiffs/Cooperating
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties
Union of Washington Foundation

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DOE PLS.’ SURREPLY TO
DEFS.’ MOT. TO DISMISS
AND DISSOLVE PRELIM. INJ.
AS MOOT - 3
Case No. 2:17-cv-00178-JLR

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
901 Fifth Avenue, Sui te 630
Seattle, W A 98164
Tel.: (206) 624-2184

K E L L E R R O H R B AC K

L.L.P.

1201 Third A venue, Suite 3200
Seattle, W A 98101-3052
Tel.: (206) 623-1900
Fax: (206) 623-3384

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on July 3, 2018, I electronically filed the attached document with the
Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system, which will send notification of such filing to the
email addresses on the Court’s Electronic Mail Notice List.
DATED this 3rd day of July, 2018.
KELLER ROHRBACK L.L.P.

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By: /s/ Tana Lin
Tana Lin, WSBA # 35271
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3200
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel.: (206) 623-1900
Fax: (206) 623-3384
Email: tlin@kellerrohrback.com

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Attorney for Plaintiffs/Cooperating
Attorney for the American Civil
Liberties Union of Washington
Foundation

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DOE PLS.’ SURREPLY TO
DEFS.’ MOT. TO DISMISS
AND DISSOLVE PRELIM. INJ.
AS MOOT - 4
Case No. 2:17-cv-00178-JLR

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
901 Fi fth Avenue, Sui te 630
Seattle, W A 98164
Tel.: (206) 624-2184

K E L L E R R O H R B AC K

L.L.P.

1201 Third A venue, Suite 3200
Seattle, W A 98101-3052
Tel.: (206) 623-1900
Fax: (206) 623-3384