United States Ninth Circuit

A private company contracting with a district attorney for services related to a diversion program is not entitled to state sovereign immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/06/2008
• Published 02/06/2008

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  JOHN R. GIBSON,A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John R. Poyner, Colusa, CA, for amicus curiae California District Attorneys Association., Robert J. Hobbs, Boston, MA, for amici curiae National Consumer Law Center, Inc., and National Association of Consumer Advocates.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles D. Jenkins (argued), of Jenkins Goodman Neuman & Hamilton LLP, San Francisco, CA, Kimbley A. Kearney and Edward M. Kay, of Clausen Miller P.C., and David L. Hartsell, of McGuire Woods LLP, Chicago, IL, for the defendant-appellant., Deepak Gupta (argued) and Brian Wolfman, of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, Paul Arons, of the Law Office of Paul Arons, Friday Harbor, Washington, and O. Randolph Bragg, of Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, Chicago, IL, for the plaintiffs-appellees.