United States Tenth Circuit

A city and county affirmative action ordinance, establishing participation goals for racial minorities and women on certain city construction and professional design projects, is constitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2003
• Published 02/10/2003

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, McKAY, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Strauss, Chicago, IL, filed an amici curiae brief on behalf of Cities of Chicago, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, and San Francisco, and International Municipal Lawyers Association;  Mara S. Georges, Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago, Lawrence Rosenthal, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Chicago, IL, on behalf of the City of Chicago;  Bradford R. Jerbic, Las Vegas City Attorney, Las Vegas, NV, on behalf of the City of Las Vegas;  Jay M. Heffern, Minneapolis City Attorney, Peter W. Ginder, Assistant City Attorney, Minneapolis, MN, on behalf of the City of Minneapolis;  Louise H. Renne, City Attorney, Randy Riddle and Teresa Stricker, Deputy City Attorneys, San Francisco, CA, on behalf of the City of San Francisco;  Henry W. Underhill, Jr., General Counsel & Executive Director, Lani L. Williams, Associate Counsel, International Municipal Lawyers Association, Washington, DC, on behalf of International Municipal Lawyers Association., Paul C. Saunders, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, NY, and Thomas J. Henderson, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law., Brad Holm, Alan K. Hyde, Holm, Wright, Hyde & Hays, PLC, Phoenix, AZ, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the City of Phoenix., Mark L. Gross, Lisa J. Stark, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the United States., Stephen D. Bell, Fatina N. Purdie, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, Denver, CO, and Franklin M. Lee, Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., Washington, DC, filed an amici curiae brief on behalf of the Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., the National Association of Minority Contractors, the Latin American Management Association, and the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium., John H. Findley, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Pacific Legal Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Scott Detamore, (William Perry Pendley, with him on the brief), Mountain States Legal Foundation, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Eileen Penner, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC, (Thomas B. Colby, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC;  J. Wallace Wortham, Jr., City Attorney, Norman R. Bangeman, Laurie J. Heydman, Dean Speirs, Victoria Ortega, Assistant City Attorneys, City and County of Denver, Denver, CO, with her on the briefs), for Defendant-Appellant.