United States Ninth Circuit

Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act applies to recall petitions circulated pursuant to California law, therefore dismissal of plaintiff's suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief regarding defendants' approval of English-only recall petitions is reversed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/22/2006
• Decided 11/23/2005
• Published 11/28/2005

Judges

• CANBY, Circuit Judge:, Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PREGERSON, CANBY, REINHARDT, KOZINSKI, O'SCANNLAIN, RYMER, KLEINFELD, FISHER, GOULD, PAEZ, TALLMAN, RAWLINSON, BYBEE, and BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nina Perales (argued), Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX, for the plaintiffs-appellants., George W. Shaeffer, Jr. (argued), Heather B. Scheck (brief), Breon & Shaeffer, P.L.C., Irvine, CA, on behalf of the Santa Ana Unified School District;  Louis R. Mauro, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wendy J. Phillips (argued), Deputy County Counsel, Santa Ana, CA;  Frederic D. Woocher (argued), Strumwasser & Woocher, LLP, Santa Monica, CA;  for the defendants-appellees.