ALASKA AIRLINES, INC.; Qwest Commuter Corp.; Westair Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
CITY OF LONG BEACH; Long Beach City Council; Evan Braude; Wallace Edgerton, et al.; Jan Hall; Thomas J. Clark; Ernie Kell; James R. Wilson; Eunice Sato; Ed Tuttle; Warren Harwood; Ray Grabinski; Marc A. Wilder, Defendants-Appellants.
LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT; Long Beach Hugh, Inc., Defendants-Intervenors,
v.
PACIFIC SOUTHWEST AIRLINES, et al.; Aircal Inc.; America West Airlines; United Air Lines; American Airlines, Inc.; Ozark Airlines, Inc.; Wings West Airlines, Inc.; Federal Express Corporation; Airserv; Delta Air Lines, Inc.; Continental Air Lines, Inc., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees.
ALASKA AIRLINES, INC.; Qwest Commuter Corp.; Westair Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Pacific Southwest Airlines, Inc.; Federal Express Corporation; Airserv; Aircal Inc.; United Air Lines; American Airlines, Inc.; Ozark Airlines, Inc.; Wings West Airlines, Inc., aka American Eagle; America West Airlines; Delta Air Lines, Inc.; Continental Air Lines, Inc., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees,
v.
CITY OF LONG BEACH; Long Beach City Council, and its members, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted September 15, 1989.
Submission Deferred August 20, 1990.
Re-Argued and Submitted October 9, 1990.
Decided October 24, 1991.
As Amended on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing January 9, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Dennis, Shafer, Young & Wish, Alan M. Shafer, Richard P. Towne, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee Alaska Airlines, Inc.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Don T. Hibner, Jr., Mark Riera, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-in-intervention, American Airlines, Inc.
Rintala, Smoot, Jaenicke & Brunswick, J. Larson Jaenicke, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-in-intervention, Continental Airlines, Inc.
Preston, Thorgrimson, Ellis & Holman, Thomas G. Allison, Paul J. Lawrence, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff-in-intervention, Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Graham & James, Leo J. Vander Lans, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-in-intervention, Federal Exp. Corp.
Belcher, Henzie & Biegenzahn, James M. Derr, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-in-intervention, Trans World Airlines, Inc.
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Robert S. Span, Judith L. Meadow, Santa Monica, Cal., for plaintiff-in-intervention, United Air Lines, Inc.
Donovan, Leisure Newton & Irvine, Terry S. Sterling, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-in-intervention, U.S. Air, Inc.
Latham & Watkins, John J. Lyons, Kirk A. Wilkinson, Los Angeles, Cal., Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, John E. Gillick, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-in-intervention America West Airlines, Inc.
Lee L. Blackman, McDermott, Will & Emery, Los Angeles, Cal., Roger P. Freeman, Deputy City Atty., Long Beach, Cal., for the defendants-appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
As Amended on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc January 9, 1992.
PER CURIAM:
I. INTRODUCTION
We review a permanent injunction following ten years of litigation over efforts by the City of Long Beach to regulate noise emanating from aircraft using the Long Beach Municipal Airport. The litigation has been waged between the city, which owns and operates the airport, and various commercial airline passenger carriers who contended that the city...
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