United States Ninth Circuit

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Appellate Information

• Argued 03/06/2003
• Decided 05/14/2003
• Published 05/14/2003

Judges

• Before O'SCANNLAIN, FERNANDEZ, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin Russell, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued the cause for the United States as Intervenor and filed a brief;  Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Jessica Dunsay Silver, Seth M. Galanter, Attorneys, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, were on the brief.


• For Appellees:
  
• Janet A. Metcalf, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, Oregon, argued the cause for the defendant-appellant and filed briefs;  Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, were on the briefs., Kathleen L. Wilde, Oregon Advocacy Center, Portland, Oregon, argued the cause for the plaintiffs-appellees;  Stephen J. Mathieu, Oregon Advocacy Center, and Kent B. Thurber, Davis, Wright Tremaine, L.L.P., Portland, Oregon, filed a brief.