On February 3, 2017, the County of Santa Clara sued President Donald J. Trump and other federal officers in the Northern District of California, No. 3:17-cv-00574, challenging Executive Order 13768 — the January 25, 2017 order on so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. The complaint caption lists Julia B. Spiegel, State Bar No. 292469, among counsel for the county. On February 17, 2017, the docket records a “NOTICE of Appearance by Julia Blau Spiegel.” That is a primary filing. It is not an invention.
Judge William H. Orrick issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against a broad reading of Section 9(a) of the order on April 25, 2017, reported at 250 F. Supp. 3d 497. He later granted summary judgment and a permanent injunction; the Ninth Circuit in 2018 affirmed the judgment and sent the nationwide scope back. Final judgment in 2019 enjoined enforcement of Section 9(a) in California. Spiegel is named as attorney for plaintiff on the Clearinghouse person page and in Stanford Lawyer’s account of the county-counsel team. She was one lawyer on a larger team, including outside counsel at Keker. A docket appearance is not a solo authorship and not a crime. Her later bios — Haas, Just Security, CA9 — claim awards for “securing a nationwide injunction that barred the federal government from defunding sanctuary jurisdictions.” Those are her shops’ characterizations of the same case.