United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's employment discrimination suit is reversed where the Placer County Air Pollution Control District is not an arm of the state and therefore is not entitled to sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/12/2004
• Decided 02/04/2005
• Published 02/04/2005

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge:, Before: FERGUSON, REINHARDT, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mathew D. Evans, James B. Carr, Duncan, Ball & Evans, Sacramento, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Roderick P. Bushnell, Bushnell, Caplan & Fielding, LLP, San Francisco, CA, and Linda J. Sloven, Nevada City, CA, for the appellee.