U.S. v. CITY OF OAKLAND, CAL.

No. 90-16538.

958 F.2d 300 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, Defendant, and Nuclear Free Oakland, Inc.; Steven P. Bloom, Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 9, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brad Seligman, Saperstein, Seligman and Mayeda, San Francisco, Cal., for intervenors-appellants.

Mark B. Stern, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Matthew J. Chachére, New York City, Amici Curiae.

Before SCHROEDER and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and CALLISTER, District Judge.


SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

Appellants seek to appeal the merits of a judgment entered in an action to which appellants never became parties. The dispositive issue is whether we have jurisdiction to consider such an appeal.

On November 8, 1988, voters in the City of Oakland, California, adopted by initiative the Oakland Nuclear Free Zone Act, Ordinance No. 11062. The Ordinance contained a variety of prohibitions effective upon the city and its citizens with...

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