United States Ninth Circuit

The U.S. Supreme Court's conclusion in Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Auth. v. Metcalf & Eddy, Inc., 506 U.S. 139, that a court of appeals has jurisdiction over a district court's non-final order denying a state's Eleventh Amendment immunity claim under the collateral order doctrine, applies whether or not an Ex Parte Young claim survives the motion state of litigation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2002
• Decided 11/06/2002
• Published 11/06/2002

Judges

• WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: WALLACE, TASHIMA and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jessica Dunsay Silver and Seth M. Galanter, Attorneys, Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael W. Kirk,Cooper & Kirk, Washington, D.C.;  Deborah Day Emerson and David A. Webber, Deputy Attorneys General for Dept. of Attorney General, State of Hawai'i, for the defendants-appellants., Michael A. Lilly and John Winnicki, Ning Lilly & Jones, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the plaintiff-appellee.