United States Ninth Circuit

The Pullman abstention applies to claim alleging municipal ordinance requiring housing code inspections of existing rental units violates both the US and state constitutions where state constitutionality of ordinance unresolved.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/12/2001
• Decided 09/26/2001
• Published 09/26/2001

Judges

• Before:  ALARCON, FERNANDEZ, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John J. McDermott, Jackson & Campbell, P.C., Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Leland B. Kerr (argued) and David D. Hilton, Evans, Kerr, Haney & Hilton, P.S., Kennewick, WA, for the defendant-appellee.