United States Ninth Circuit

A Department of Transportation regulation, prohibiting discrimination against area residents based on race, does not create an individual federal right that can be enforced under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. section 1983.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2003
• Published 07/10/2003

Judges

• Before:  HILL,GOULD, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael W. Gendler,Bricklin & Gendler, LLP, and Eric Schnapper, University of Washington School of Law, of Seattle, Washington, for the plaintiff-appellant., Kimberly West-Faulcon of Los Angeles, CA, and Elaine R. Jones, Norman J. Chachkin, and James L. Cott of New York, NY, for amicus curiae NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., Luke W. Cole of San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment.


• For Appellees:
  
• Desmond L. Brown, Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, and Paul J. Lawrence and James A. Goeke, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, of Seattle, WA, for the defendant-appellee.