United States Ninth Circuit

In a dormant Commerce Clause action by recyclers challenging a local ordinance banning a particular method of waste disposal, summary judgment for plaintiffs is reversed in part with instructions to dismiss where the recyclers' injury was not even marginally related to the interests the Commerce Clause seeks to safeguard. The ruling is vacated and remanded in part where the circuit court's dismissal of the federal constitutional claim might materially alter the district court's decision to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over plaintiffs' preemption claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/02/2009
• Decided 09/09/2009
• Published 09/09/2009

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:, Before DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, PAMELA ANN RYMER, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Sullivan, Water Environment Federation, Alexandria, VA, filed a brief on behalf of Amicus Curiae Water Environment Federation., Keith J. Jones, National Association of Clean Water Agencies, Washington, DC, filed a brief on behalf of Amicus Curiae National Association of Clean Water Agencies. Nathan Gardner-Andrews, National Association of Clean Water Agencies, Washington, DC, was also on the brief.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven L. Mayer, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, CA, argued the cause for defendants-appellants and filed the briefs. Jerome B. Falk, Jr. and Adam Polakoff, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, CA; Bernard C. Barmann and Stephen D. Schuett, County of Kern, Bakersfield, CA; and Michael M. Hogan, Hogan Guiney Dick LLP, San Diego, CA, were also on the briefs., Thomas S. Hixon, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued the cause for plaintiffs-appellees and was on the briefs. James J. Dragna and Marc R. Bruner, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Rockard J. Delgadillo, Christopher M. Westhoff, and Keith W. Pritsker, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; James B. Slaughter and Gary J. Smith, Washington, DC; Daniel V. Hyde and Paul J. Beck, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Bradley R. Hogin, Woodruff Spradlin & Smart, Orange, CA; Michael J. Lampe, Law Offices of Michael J. Lampe, Visalia, CA; and Roberta L. Larson and Jonathan Schutz, Somach Simmons & Dunn, Sacramento, CA, were also on the briefs.