United States Ninth Circuit

The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act, 42 U.S.C. sections 670-76, creates federal rights enforceable through a section 1983 cause of action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/02/2005
• Decided 09/13/2005
• Published 09/13/2005

Judges

• CLIFTON, Circuit Judge., Before HUG, TASHIMA, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Maria F. Ramiu (argued) and Alice Bussiere, Youth Law Center, San Francisco, CA, and Arthur C. Johnson and Dennis M. Gerl, Johnson, Clifton, Larson & Corson, PC, Eugene, OR, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General and David E. Leith, Assistant Attorney General (argued), State of Oregon, Salem, OR, for the defendants-appellees.