United States Ninth Circuit

A provision of the federal Voting Rights Act -- which requires that, in certain states with substantial linguistic minority populations of voting age, election materials must be provided in the applicable minority languages as well as English -- does not attach to recall petitions initiated, circulated and paid for by private proponents of a recall, when the proponents are required to draft the petitions in a form specified by the state and county.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/22/2006
• Decided 09/19/2006
• Published 09/19/2006

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.