Save Our Valley v. Sound Transit

335 F.3d 932 SAVE OUR VALLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUND TRANSIT (Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority); Bob White, Sound Transit Executive Director; Perry Weinberg, Sound Transit SEPA, Responsible Official; Transportation Dept U.S. Federal Transit Administration; Helen Knoll, Federal Transit Administration Regional Administrator Region X, Defendants-Appellees, and Sound Transit SEPA Responsible Official, Defendant. No. 01-36172. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted September 9, 2002. Filed July 10, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Michael W. Gendler, Bricklin & Gendler, LLP, and Eric Schnapper, University of Washington School of Law, of Seattle, Washington, for the plaintiff-appellant. Desmond L. Brown, Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, and Paul J. Lawrence and James A. Goeke, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, of Seattle, WA, for the defendant-appellee. Kimberly West-Faulcon of Los Angeles, CA, and Elaine R. Jones, Norman J. Chachkin, and James L. Cott of New York, NY, for amicus curiae NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. Luke W. Cole of San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Center on Race, Poverty and the…