United States Fourth Circuit

The historical background and events leading up to a cap in the amount of municipal solid waste that Virginia landfills may accept shows that no reasonable juror could find that the governor acted with a discriminatory purpose when enacting the provisions at issue.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2000
• Decided 06/04/2001
• Published 06/04/2001

Judges

• Before WIDENER and KING, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Stewart Todd Leeth, Assistant Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellants. Evan Mark Tager, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC;  Timothy George Hayes, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VA, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Mark L. Earley, Attorney General of Virginia, William H. Hurd, Solicitor General, Roger L. Chaffe, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Ellen F. Brown, Assistant Attorney General, William E. Thro, Assistant Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellants.  Kenneth S. Geller, Miriam R. Nemetz, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC;  D. Alan Rudlin, Shawn A. Copeland, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VA;  Jason S. Thomas, Hunton & Williams, Raleigh, NC;  B. Randolph Boyd, Randolph, Boyd, Cherry & Vaughan, Richmond, VA, for Appellees.