United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of the government's civilian airline passenger identification policy is denied where neither the identification policy nor its application to plaintiff violated plaintiff's constitutional rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/08/2005
• Decided 01/26/2006
• Published 01/26/2006

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge., Before STEPHEN S. TROTT, THOMAS G. NELSON, and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William M. Simpich, Oakland, CA;  James P. Harrison, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Lee Tien and Kurt Opsahl, San Francisco, CA, for amicus Electronic Frontier Foundation., Marc Rotenberg and Marcia Hofmann, Washington, D.C., for amicus Electronic Privacy Information Center., Deborah Pierce and Linda Ackerman, San Francisco, CA;  Rachel Meeropol, New York, NY, for amici The Center for Constitutional Rights and Privacy Activism., Reginald T. Shuford and Catherine Y. Kim, New York, NY;  Aaron Caplan, Michael E. Kipling, Summit Law Group, Seattle, WA, for amici American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union for Washington.


• For Appellees:
  
• James P. Rathvon, Piper Rudnick LLP, Washington, D.C.;  Jane H. Barrett, Piper Rudnick LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee Southwest Airlines Co., Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General;  Kevin V. Ryan, United States Attorney;  Douglas N. Letter and Joshua Waldman, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, et al.