NISH v. RUMSFELD

No. 02-2089.

348 F.3d 1263 (2003)

NISH; RCI, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Donald H. RUMSFELD, Secretary of Defense; James G. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force, Defendants-Appellees, and New Mexico Commission for the Blind; Robert Vick, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees. National Council of State Agencies for the Blind, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 14, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Pachter, Smith, Pachter, McWhorter & Allen, P.L.C., Vienna, VA (and Douglas G. Schneebeck, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants NISH and RCI, Inc. Also on the briefs, Patrick D. Allen, Yenson, Lynn, Allen & Wosick, P.C., Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellant RCI, Inc.

Andrew D. Freeman, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for Intervenor-Defendants—New Mexico Appellees.

Jeffrica Jenkins Lee, Appellant Staff (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, David C. Iglesias, United States Attorney, and William Kanter, Appellant Staff, on the brief), Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Federal Appellees.

Peter A. Nolan, Winstead, Sechrest & Minick, P.C., Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae, National Council of State Agencies for the Blind.

Before KELLY, HOLLOWAY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.


PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs RCI (Realizing Confidence & Independence) and NISH appeal from the district court's grant of summary judgment to Defendants, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of the Air Force James G. Roche ("Secretaries"), and Intervenors New Mexico Commission for the Blind ("NMCB"), and Robert Vick, a licensed blind vendor. NISH v. Rumsfeld, 188 F.Supp.2d 1321 (D.N.M...

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