On December 4, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two orders staying the preliminary injunctions issued against President Trump’s September 24, 2017 Presidential Proclamation by the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii in the case Hawaii v. Trump and by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in the case IRAP v. Trump, pending the disposition of the administration’s appeals of these District Court rulings to the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Fourth