United States Ninth Circuit

The use of an integration tiebreaker by defendant-school district in its high school admission program does not violate the federal Constitution's Equal Protection Clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/21/2005
• Decided 10/20/2005
• Published 10/20/2005

Judges

• Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PREGERSON, KOZINSKI, KLEINFELD, HAWKINS, W. FLETCHER, FISHER, TALLMAN, RAWLINSON, CALLAHAN and BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Harry J.F. Korrell (argued) and Daniel B. Ritter, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-counter-defendant/appellant., Michael Madden (argued) and Carol Sue Janes, Bennett Bigelow & Leedom, P.S., Seattle, WA, and Mark S. Green, Office of the General Counsel, Seattle School District No. 1, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-counter-claimants/appellees., Sharon L. Browne, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, and Russell C. Brooks, Pacific Legal Foundation, Bellevue, WA, for the amici curiae Pacific Legal Foundation, American Civil Rights Institute, American Civil Rights Union and Center for Equal Opportunity in support of plaintiff-counter-defendant/appellant., Paul J. Lawrence, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, Seattle, WA, for the amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union in support of defendants-counter-claimants/appellees.