Opinion
Nos. 04-16688, 04-16720.
February 13, 2009.
Debra Gardner, Esquire, Jonathan Smith, Esquire, Baltimore, MD, Irma Dolores Herrera, Esquire, Equal Rights Advocates, City Name, CA, Jocelyn Dion Larkin, Brad Seligman, The Impact Fund, Berkeley, CA, Shauna I. Marshall, Esquire, Hastings College of the Law, Debra Smith, Equal Rights Advocates, Steven L. Stemerman, Esquire, Elizabeth Ann Lawrence, Esquire, Davis Cowell Bowe, San Francisco, CA, Joseph Sellers, Christine E. Webber, Partner, Deborah J. Vagins, Esquire, Cohen Milstein Sellers Toll, PLLC, Washington, DC, Stephen Tinkler, Esquire, Tinker Bennett, Merit Bennett, Esquire, Charles V. Firth, Esquire, Tinker Firth, Santa Fe, NM, Sheila Thomas, Esquire, Equal Rights Advocates, Oakland, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Nancy L. Abell, Esquire, Paul Grossman, Esquire, Paul Hastings Janofsky Walker LLP, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Esquire, Gail E. Lees, Esquire, Gibson Dunn Crutcher, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Katherine Consuelo Huibonhoa, Paul Hastings Janofsky Walker, LLP, Mark Andrew Perry, Counsel, Gibson Dunn Crutcher, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Barbara A. Johnson, Esquire, Neal D. Mollen, Esquire, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky Walker, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellant.
Jeffrey A. Berman, Esquire, Sidley Austin LLP, Joel E. Krischer, Esquire, Latham Watkins, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Ann Elizabeth Reesman, Esquire, Rae T. Vann, General Counsel, Norris, Tysse, Lampley Lakis, LLP, Evelyn L. Becker, Esquire, John H. Beisner, Esquire, O'Melveny Myers LLP, Richard Abbott Samp, Chief Counsel, Washington Legal Foundation, Raymond C. Fay, Esquire, Constantine Cannon LLP, Sandi Farrell, Esquire, Mehri Skalet, PLLC, Daniel B. Kohrman, Esquire, American Association of Retired Persons, Michael Foreman, Esquire, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Washington, DC, Terri L. Ross, Esquire, McDermott Will Emery, New York, NY, Marissa M. Tirona, Esquire, National Employment Lawyers Assoc, Maureen K. Bogue, Esquire, Law Offices, San Francisco, CA, Bill Lann Lee, Esquire, Lewis Feinberg Lee Renaker Jackson, PC, Oakland, CA, David R. Bruce, Esquire, Law Offices, Santa Rosa, CA, Richard L. Berkman, Esquire, Dechert Price Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, for Amicus Curiae.
Mark E. Barton, Esquire, Hersh Hersh LLP, San Francisco, CA, Joe R. Whatley, Esquire, Whatley Drake Kallas LLC, New York, NY, for Amicus.
ORDER
Upon the vote of a majority of nonrecused active judges, it is ordered that this case be reheard en banc pursuant to Circuit Rule 35-3. The three-judge panel opinion shall not be cited as precedent by or to any court of the Ninth Circuit.
Judges McKEOWN, RAWLINSON and BYBEE did not participate in the deliberations or vote in this case.