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Doing Business in Florida, "DHS and DOS Implementation of Executive Order Imposing Travel and Refugee Ban"
October 18, 2017
By: Adriana Kostencki
Doing Business in Florida
On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii issued a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO) in the case Hawaii v. Trump, blocking the majority of the travel restrictions set forth in President Trump’s September 24, 2017 proclamation. The TRO temporarily enjoins the implementation and enforcement of sections 2(a), (b), (c), (e), (g), and (h) of the proclamation and applies to nationals from six of the eight designated countries: Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad. The TRO does not, however, enjoin the proclamation’s travel restrictions on nationals from North Korea and Venezuela as the plaintiffs in Hawaii v. Trump did not seek to enjoin the travel ban with respect to these two countries.
