Opinion
Nos. 09-17241, 09-17551.
December 16, 2009.
David Boies, Thoedore H. Uno, Boies, Schiller Flexner, Armonk, NY, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Esquire, Christopher D. Dusseault, Gibson, Dunn Crutcher, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Ethan Douglas Dettmer, Esquire, Rebecca Justice Lazarus, Theane Evangelis Kapur, Enrique Antonio Monagas, Gibson, Dunn Crutcher, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Matthew McGill, Theodore Olson, Amir C. Tayrani, Gibson Dunn Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Kenneth C. Mennemeier, Jr., Mennemeier, Glassman Stroud, LLP, Sacramento, CA, Tamar Pachter, Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants.
James Andrew Campbell, Litigation Staff Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund, Scottsdale, AZ, Charles J. Cooper, Nicole Moss, Jesse Panuccio, Peter A. Patterson, David Thompson, Cooper Kirk, PLLC, Washington, DC, Andrew P. Pugno, Esquire, Law Offices, Folsom, CA, for Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant.
Erin Bernstein, Christine Van Aken, Deputy City, Ronald P. Flynn, San Francisco City Attorney's Office, Danny Chou, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Intervenor.
Before: KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RAYMOND C. FISHER and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.
ORDER
A judge of this court has called for a vote to determine whether this case will be reheard en banc under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 35(a). The parties are requested to file simultaneous briefs setting forth their respective positions on whether this case should be reheard en banc, including whether rehearing en banc is warranted in light of Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter, ___ U.S. ___, 130 S.Ct. 599, ___ L.Ed.2d ___ (2009).
The briefs shall be filed on or before December 24, 2009. Parties who are registered for ECF must file the brief electronically without submission of paper copies. Parties who are not registered ECF filers must file the original brief plus 50 paper copies.