United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit alleging discrimination against non-Navajo Native Americans based on a Navajo hiring preference, the Navajo Nation is a necessary party to the action, and it is feasible to join the Nation in order to effect complete relief between the parties.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2004
• Decided 03/10/2005
• Published 03/10/2005

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before HUG, ALARCÓN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Benjamin N. Gutman (Argued), EEOC, Washington, D.C., Ralph E. Chamness, Katherine Kruse, EEOC, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lawrence Jay Rosenfeld, Mary E. Bruno, John F. Lomax, Jr., Greenberg Traurig, Phoenix, AZ, for the defendant-appellee.