MARTINEZ v. WILSON

Nos. 92-56458, 92-56464, 92-56468 and 93-56655.

32 F.3d 1415 (1994)

Linda MARTINEZ; Gilbert Acosta; Aurora Acosta; City of Los Angeles Area Agency on Aging; International Institute of Los Angeles; Altamed; Watts Labor Community Action Committee; Associacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores; National Caucus and Center on Black Aged; National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging; National Indian Counsel of Aging, Inc.; City of San Francisco; County of San Francisco, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Pete WILSON, Governor of the State of California; California Department of Aging; Chris Arnold, Director California Department of Aging, Defendants, and Ramona Dario; Manuel Avila, Intervenors-Appellants, and Jovenes De Antano, Inc.; Mary Maderos; PSA 1 Area Agency on Aging; PSA 2 Area Agency on Aging, et al.; Maria Blanco, et al., Intervenors. Linda MARTINEZ; Gilbert Acosta; Aurora Acosta; City of Los Angeles Area Agency on Aging; International Institute of Los Angeles; Altamed; Watts Labor Community Action Committee; Associacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores; National Caucus and Center on Black Aged; National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging; National Indian Counsel of Aging, Inc.; City of San Francisco; County of San Francisco, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Pete WILSON, Governor of the State of California; California Department of Aging; Chris Arnold, Director California Department of Aging, Defendants, and PSA 3 Area Agency on Aging; PSA 15 Area Agency on Aging; PSA 16 Area Agency on Aging; PSA 24 Area Agency on Aging; PSA 1 Area Agency on Aging; PSA 26 North Coast Opportunities, Inc.; PSA 2 Area Agency on Aging, et al., Intervenors-Appellants, and Jovenes De Antano, Inc., et al.; Maria Blanco, et al., Intervenors. Linda MARTINEZ; Gilbert Acosta; Aurora Acosta; City of Los Angeles Area Agency on Aging; International Institute of Los Angeles; Altamed; Watts Labor Community Action Committee; Associacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores; National Caucus and Center on Black Aged; National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging; National Indian Counsel of Aging, Inc.; City of San Francisco; County of San Francisco, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Pete WILSON, Governor of the State of California; California Department of Aging; Chris Arnold, Director California Department of Aging, Defendants-Appellees, and Jovenes De Antano, Inc., et al.; PSA 1 Area Agency on Aging, et al.; Mario Blanco, et al., Intervenors-Appellees, Linda MARTINEZ; Gilbert Acosta; Aurora Acosta; City of Los Angeles Area Agency on Aging; International Institute of Los Angeles; Altamed; Watts Labor Community Action Committee; Associacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores; National Caucus and Center on Black Aged; National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging; National Indian Counsel of Aging, Inc.; City of San Francisco; County of San Francisco, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Mario Blanco, et al., Intervenor-Appellee, v. Pete WILSON, Governor of the State of California; California Department of Aging; Chris Arnold, Director California Department of Aging, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 22, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrance Lee Hancock, Senior Citizens Legal Services, Santa Cruz, CA, attorney for intervenors-appellants Dario and Avila; intervenors-appellees Jovenes De Antano, Inc., et al.

Jay D. Christensen, Los Angeles, CA, attorney for intervenors-appellants Area 1 Agency on Aging, etc.

Charlton G. Holland, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., San Francisco, CA, attorney for State appellants and State appellees.

Eugenie Denise Mitchell, Legal Services of Northern California, Sacramento, CA, attorney for plaintiffs in intervention and intervenors-appellees Blanco, et al.

Neal S. Dudovitz, National Senior Citizens Law Center, and John K. Van de Kamp, Dewey Ballantine, Los Angeles, CA, attorneys for plaintiffs-appellees and appellants Martinez, et al.

Before: FLETCHER, CANBY, and HALL, Circuit Judges.


CANBY, Circuit Judge:

The City of Los Angeles Area Agency on Aging and the City and County of San Francisco, along with several other individual and organizational plaintiffs, ("the Cities") brought this action challenging California's formula for distributing funds under the Older Americans Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3001 et seq. The district court entered an injunction prohibiting the State from using certain factors in its formula, requiring the State to...

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