AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Digges, Jr. (argued), Chief Counsel, American Trucking Associations, Inc. Arlington, Virginia; Stephen S. Anderson, Jr. , William Stephen Cannon , Seth David Greenstein , Richard Levine , and Evan P. Schultz , Constantine, Cannon LLP, Washington, D.C.; Christopher Chad McNatt, Jr. , Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, LLP, Pasadena, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

Steven S. Rosenthal (argued), Susanna Chu , David Cousineau , and Alan Palmer , Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; Joy Murakami Crose and Simon Michael Kann , LA City Attorney's Office, San Pedro, California; Thomas A. Russell and Carmen A. Trutanich , City of Los Angeles, San Pedro, California, for defendants-appellants the City of Los Angeles and the Board of Harbor Commissioners.

Melissa Lin Perrella (argued) and David Richard Pettit , Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Santa Monica, California, for defendants-intervenors-appellees The National Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and Coalition for Clean Air, Inc.

Anthony T. Caso , Law Office of Anthony T. Caso, Orange, California; John C. Eastman , The Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Orange, California, for amicus-curiae The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and Harbor Trucking Association.

Kamala Harris and Susan Lea Durbin , Office of the California Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for amicus curiae the State of California.

John R. Bagileo , Law Office of John R. Bagileo, Glenwood, Maryland; Mark Irving Labaton , Motley Rice LLP, Los Angeles, California, for amicus curiae the Intermodal Association of North America, Inc.

William L. Messenger , National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Springfield, Virginia, for amicus curiae Raymond Porras, Pilar Orellana, and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.

Paul D. Cullen, Jr. , The Cullen Law Firm, PLLC, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc.

Before: Betty B. Fletcher and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Rudi M. Brewster, District Court Judge. Opinion by Judge B. Fletcher; Dissent by Judge N. R. Smith