United States of America, Plaintiff-appellant, v. Hossein Afshari, Aka Hosseini Deklami; Mohammad Omidvar; Hassan Rezaie; Roya Rahmani, Aka Sister Tahmineh; Navid Taj, Aka Najaf Eshkoftegi; Mustafa Ahmady; Alireza Mohamad Moradi, Defendants-appellees, 427 F.3d 646 (9th Cir. 2005)

Ronald L. Cheng, Esq., USLA—Office of the U.S. Attorney, Criminal Division, Los Angeles, CA, Yoel Tobin, Esq., Douglas N. Letter, Esq., DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Nadine C. Hettle, Esq., FPDCA—Federal Public Defender's Office (Los Angeles), Anthony Pacheco, Proskauer Rose LLP, Sam S. Puathasnanon, Esq., Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP, David R. Reed, Esq., Law Office of David R. Reed, Richard M. Steingard, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, Michael J. Treman, Esq., Attorney at Law, Santa Barbara, CA, Yolanda M. Barrera, Esq., Monrovia, CA, Abbe David Lowell, Esq., Chadbourne & Parke LLP, Washington, DC, Stephen P. Berzon, Esq., Altshuler Berzon Nussbaum Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, David R. Evans, Esq. Pasadena, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Margaret C. Crosby, Esq., American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, George C. Harris, Esq., Somnath Chatterjee, Esq., Morrison & Foerster, LLP, Ephraim Margolin, Esq., Somnath Chatterjee, Esq., San Francisco, CA, for Amici.

Before KLEINFELD, WARDLAW, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.