Manuel Ortega Melendres v. Joseph Arpaio

OPINION

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:

In a previous opinion in this case, we affirmed the district court’s post-trial preliminary injunction against Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office (individually, Sheriff Arpaio and MCSO; collectively, Defendants), which prohibited Defendants from detaining any individual “based only on knowledge or reasonable belief, without more, that the person is unlawfully present within the United States.” See Melendres v. Arpaio, 695 F.3d 990, 994 (9th Cir.2012) (Melendres I). In this opinion, we address Defendants’ appeal from the…