STATE OF CALIF. v. U.S.

No. 95-55490.

104 F.3d 1086 (1997)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Pete Wilson, Governor; Joe G. Sandoval, Secretary, Youth and Adult Correctional Agency; James H. Gomez, Director, Department of Corrections; Francisco J. Alarcon, Chief Deputy Director, Department of the Youth Authority; Russell S. Gould, Director of Finance, State of California; Sandra Smoley, Secretary, Health and Welfare Agency, State of California; S. Kimberly Belshe, Director of Health Services, State of California, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America; Janet Reno, Attorney General; Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States; Alice Rivlin, Acting Director, Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, United States, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 7, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd D. Shimomura, Assistant Attorney General, Linda A. Cabatic, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Paul H. Dobson, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Mark B. Stern, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.

Louis F. Hubener, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida; Ian Fan, Deputy, San Diego, California; Daniel J. Popeo, David A. Price, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for the amici curiae.

Before REINHARDT and HALL, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, Senior District Judge.


MERHIGE, Senior District Judge:

In this appeal, Plaintiffs-Appellants State of California1 ("California") and state officials Governor Pete Wilson; Director of Finance, Russell S. Gould; Acting Secretary, Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, Joe G. Sandoval; Director of the Department of Corrections, James H. Gomez; Chief Deputy Director of the Department of the Youth Authority, Francisco J....

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