Silicon Valley giants round on Trump over travel ban
Ninety-seven firms file court document opposing Trump's controversial US immigration ban
A host of technology vendors have joined forces to a fight Donald Trump's US immigration ban in court.
97 tech firms - including Apple, Google and Microsoft - along with businesses from other sectors (full list below) - have filed a joint amicus briefing in Washington.
An amicus curiae briefing, or ‘friend-of-the-court' briefing, allows parties not involved in a case to assist the court by offering relevant information.
The filing states: "The [Trump immigration] Order represents a significant departure from the principles of fairness and predictability that have governed the immigration system of the United States for more than fifty years—and the Order inflicts significant harm on American business, innovation, and growth as a result.
"The Order makes it more difficult and expensive for US companies to recruit, hire, and retain some of the world's best employees. It disrupts ongoing business operations. And it threatens companies' ability to attract talent, business, and investment to the United States."
Trump signed an executive order at the end of last month banning people from seven mainly Muslim countries travelling to the US, which has been overturned by a US court.
The travel ban has reignited a volatile relationship between Trump and Silicon Valley that seemed to show signs of improving after his shock victory last year.
A host of tech leaders met Trump in December last year where the then president-elect told them he "wanted to help you folks do well", after 100 tech firms had released an open letter pledging their support to Hilary Clinton.
HPE's Meg Whitman also branded him a "dishonest demagogue".
There are a few noticeable absentees from the amicus court filing.
Amazon is not one of the 97 firms noted in the court briefing, but CEO Jeff Bezos slammed the travel ban last week and said in an email to staff that the Amazon legal team would fight Trump's actions.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins is also missing, as is Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz who is a member of Trump's transition team. Both attended the meeting with Trump in December.
There is also no mention of HP Inc, Hewlett Package Enterprise or IBM.
A full list of the 97 companies listed in the Amicus filing:
AdRoll
Aeris Communications
Airbnb
AltSchool
Ancestry.com
Appboy
Apple
AppNexus
Asana
Atlassian
Autodesk
Automattic
Box
Brightcove
Brit Media
CareZone
Castlight Health
Checkr
Chobani Global Holdings
Citrix Systems
Cloudera
Cloudflare
Copia Institute
DocuSign
DoorDash
Dropbox
Dynatrace
eBay
Etsy
Fastly
Foursquare
Fuze
General Assembly Space
GitHub
Glassdoor
GoPro
Harmonic
Hipmunk
Indiegogo
Intel
JAND
Kargo
Kickstarter
KIND
Knotel
Levi Strauss
Lithium Technologies
Lyft
Mapbox
Maplebear
Marin Software
Medallia
A Medium Corporation
Meetup
Microsoft
Motivate International
Mozilla
Netflix
Netgear
NewsCred
Patreon
PayPal
Quora
Rocket Fuel
SaaStr
Salesforce
Scopely
Shutterbox
Snap
Spokeo
Spotify
Square
Squarespace
Strava
Stripe
SurveyMonkey
TaskRabbit
Tech:NYC
Thumbtack
Turn
Twilio
Turn
Uber
Via Transportation
Wikimedia Foundation
Workday
Y Combinator Management
Yelp
Zynga