United States Ninth Circuit

Because Congress did not intend for mixed solid waste to be considered "property," the Federal Aviation Administration Authorizing Act of 1994 does not preempt local trash hauling regulations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/05/2001
• Decided 03/12/2002
• Published 03/12/2002

Judges

• Before HUG, T.G. NELSON and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark B. Stern, Dana J. Martin, Department of Justice Civil Division, Washington, DC, for intervenor., Jay W. Beattie,Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler, LLP, Portland, OR, John Douglas Moore, Henn, Etzel and Moore, Inc., Oakland, CA, Robert B. Rocklin, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, OR, Scott M. DuBoff, Wright & Talisman, P.C., Washington, DC, Richard E. Norris, Mark S. Coon, and John L. Kortum, Archer Norris, Richmond, CA, Vicki W.W. Lai, Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo PLLC, Seattle, WA, John Kelly Astor, Astor & Phillips, John J. Welsh, Burke, Williams & Sorenen, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, James K. Sells, Silverdale, WA, Todd E. Thompson, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dan R. Olsen, Washington County Counsel, Hillsboro, OR, and Williams J. Scheiderich, City Attorney's Office, Beaverton, OR, for the defendants-appellants., Barnes H. Ellis, James N. Westwood, Stephen A. Redshaw, Stoel Rives LLP, G. Frank Hammond, Cable Huston Benedict Haagensen & Lloyd LLP, Edward J. Sullivan, James R. Herald, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, Portland, OR, for intervenors-appellants and defendant-intervenor-appellant., Lawrence R. Davidson, Jeffrey M. Batchelor and Paul Bierly, Markowitz, Herbold, Glade & Mehlhaf, P.C., Portland, OR, for plaintiff-appellee.