A group of tech companies have planned to meet to discuss filing an amicus brief to support the lawsuit challenging US President Donald Trump's order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-dominant countries. A spokesman revealed these informations of the company that is organizing this.
The meeting is together called by a firm called GitHub, which makes software development tools. Amicus, or we can say friend of the court, briefs are filed by parties who are not litigants in a case but want to offer arguments of informations to the judge.
Some of the companies invited include Alphabet Inc's Apple, Airbnb Inc and Netflix Inc. Representatives of Google and Netflix could not immediately reach for the comment, Airbnb spokesman declined to comment.
The tech sector has clearly become the against party of the ban decision from President Trump, which was announced last week. The industry nowadays, depends on talent from all around the world. Companies try to muster best possible resources, with efforts so far including statements condemning the move and financial support for organizations backing immigrants, such as the American Civil Liberties Union.
Trump administration says theses rules will increase the safety of the nation and its well within the powers. Michal Rosenn, general counsel for fundraising company Kickstarter, the firm which will be involved in the filing, said the effort began on Monday itself.
The healthy discussions among tech companies took speed after Amazon.com and Expedia filed declarations in court on Monday supporting a lawsuit filed by the Washington State Attorney general. Amazon and Expedia clearly say that Trump's adversely affect their business.
A separate lawsuit challenging Trump's order as unconstitutional was filed on Monday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. If the tech companies decide file the lawsuit, then the case might take a turn.
Other companies invited to meet include Adobe Systems Inc, AdRoll, Automattic Inc, Box Inc, Cloudera Inc, Cloudflare Inc, Docusign, Dropbox, Etsy Inc, Evernote Corp, Glu Mobile Inc, Lithium, Medium, Mozilla, Pinterest, reddit, Salesforce.com Inc, SpaceX, Stripe, Yelp Inc, and Zynga Inc, the source said.
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