More than 120 companies signed friend-of-the-court briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in opposition to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from six predominantly Muslim countries last month.
The first travel ban was shot down by the court, and rather than seek an appeal, the Trump administration drafted a new one, outlining similar restrictions as before. The state of Hawaii challenged the new executive order on March 8, and, like before, a multitude of technology companies signed on opposing it. On Wednesday, a federal judge in Hawaii also issued a temporary restraining order for the revised travel ban.
