SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The Department of Justice on Monday asked a Ninth Circuit panel to vacate a preliminary injunction barring federal law enforcement from using excessive and indiscriminate force against journalists covering protests in Southern California.
“This injunction is so overbroad and so unworkable in so many different ways that we submit that process is better left to the district court in the first instance and this injunction ought to be vacated,” Department of Justice attorney Michael Shih said. “The Supreme Court has traditionally not looked favorably on efforts to impose programmatic injunctions on law enforcement operators on the basis of individualized assertions of misconduct.”
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