United States Tenth Circuit
THOMPSON v. STATE OF COLORADO, 99-1045
Handicapped plaintiffs may not challenge state fee for handicapped parking placards under Colo. Rev. Stat. 42-3-121(2)(d) because Title II of the ADA does not abrogate a state's 11th Amendment immunity.
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/07/2001
- Published 08/07/2001
Judges
- MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, Circuit Judge, REAVLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Court
- United States Tenth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Jessica Dunsay Silver, Seth M. Galanter, Attorneys, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, filed briefs on behalf of the Intervenor.
- For Appellees:
- Stephen R. Senn,Peterson & Myers, P.A., Lakeland, FL (J. Davis Connor, Peterson & Myers, P.A., Lakeland, FL; Robert Antonello, Robert G. Fegers, Antonello, Fegers & CEA, Winter Haven, FL; Glen F. Gordon, John A. Purvis, William R. Gray, Purvis, Gray & Gordon, LLP, Boulder, CO, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Paul Farley, Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Colorado, (Ken Salazar, Attorney General, State of Colorado, with him on the briefs), Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellant.