United States Fifth Circuit

The Equal Pay Act, 29 USC 206(d), does not violate the Eleventh Amendment because it is congruent and proportional between the injury to be prevented or remedied and the means adopted to that end.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2001
• Published 08/24/2001

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before POLITZ, DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Seth Michael Galanter (argued), Jessica Dunsay Silver, Timothy J. Moran, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, DC, for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph Y. Ahmad (argued), Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Anaipakos, Andrew S. Golub, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Gregory Scott Coleman, Danica L. Milios, Asst. Solicitor General (argued), Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.