State of Oregon v. Legal Services Corp.

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

STATE OF OREGON, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 06-36012 v. D.C. No.

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION,  CV-05-01443-

Defendant-Appellee, REJ/PP

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OPINION

Intervenor-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Robert E. Jones, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 23, 2008—Portland, Oregon

Filed January 8, 2009

Before: A. Wallace Tashima and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and George Wu,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.

*The Honorable George Wu, United States District Judge for the Cen- tral District of California, sitting by designation.

115 118 OREGON v. LEGAL SERVICES CORP.

COUNSEL

Hardy Myers, Mary H. Williams, Stephen K. Bushong, and Jacqueline Sadker, Oregon Department of Justice, Salem, Oregon, for the plaintiff-appellant.

William S. Freeman, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Palo Alto, California; Alan Levine, Rachel B. Kane, and Allison Hersh, Cooley Godward…