United States Ninth Circuit

California Proposition 227, which replaces bilingual educational programs with a curricular program designed to teach students in English, does not unconstitutionally restructure the political process in violate of equal protection.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/14/2002
• Decided 10/07/2002
• Published 10/07/2002

Judges

• TASHIMA, Circuit Judge., Before HUG, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges, and SEDWICK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas A. Saenz,Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald P. Cole, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellees., Sharon L. Brown, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for intervenor-appellee Sarina Frias.