Dozens of top tech companies — including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter — file a joint legal brief arguing against President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
The brief was filed late last night with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of an ongoing lawsuit against the ban. On Friday, following a lawsuit filed by the state of Washington challenging the ban, a federal judge in Seattle temporarily suspended Trump’s order pending a wider legal review.
The joint brief charges that the ban “inflicts significant harm on American business, innovation, and growth as a result,” according to a copy of the document published by US media outlets.
Executives from several top Silicon Valley companies had previously spoken out against the ban, which temporarily barred all refugees and travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the United States.
— AFP
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