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LABOR/COMM. STRATEGY v. L.A. COUNTY METRO. TRANSP.

No. 99-56581.

263 F.3d 1041 (2001)

LABOR/COMMUNITY STRATEGY CENTER; Bus Riders Union; Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles County; Koren Immigrant Workers Advocates; Maria Guardado; Ricardo Zelada; Noemi Zelada; Pearl Daniels, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, Defendant-Appellant, and Julian Burke, MTA Chief Executive Officer in his individual and official capacities, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 31, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shirley M. Hufstedler, Morrison & Foerster, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellant.

E. Richard Larson, Erica J. Teasley, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Los Angeles, California; Constance L. Rice, English Munger & Rice, Los Angeles, California; Elaine R. Jones, Norman J. Chachkin, Theodore Shaw, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Robert Garcia, Environmental Defense Fund; Joel Reynolds, Natural Resources Defense Council, Coalition for Clean Air; Stewart Kwoh, Asian Pacific Americal Legal Center of Southern California; Scott Kuhn, Communities for a Better Environment, for the amicus.

Before: BROWNING, HALL, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge SILVERMAN; Dissent by Judge CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL.

SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:

A district court approved a consent decree that settled a civil rights lawsuit between a group of bus passengers and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("MTA") concerning the quality of bus service in their community. Fourteen months later, after certain service improvement goals had not been met, the district court-first through a Special...

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