BERNSTEIN v. VIRGIN AMERICA, INC.

Nos. 19-15382 20-15186.

3 F.4th 1127 (2021)

Julia BERNSTEIN; Esther Garcia; Lisa Marie Smith, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. VIRGIN AMERICA, INC.; Alaska Airlines, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 23, 2021.

Amended March 8, 2021.

Amended July 20, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shay Dvoretzky (argued), Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, D.C.; Douglas W. Hall and Anthony J. Dick , Jones Day, Washington, D.C.; David J. Feder , Jones Day, Los Angeles, California; Brendan T. Killeen , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellants.

Charles J. Cooper (argued), Peter A. Patterson , and John D. Ohlendorf , Cooper & Kirk PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Monique Olivier (argued), Olivier Schreiber & Chao LLP, San Francisco, California; James E. Miller , Miller Shah LLP, Chester, Connecticut; Alison Kosinski , Kosinski & Thiagaraj LLP, Oakland, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Jennifer L. Utrecht (argued) and Mark B. Stern , Appellate Staff; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Steven G. Bradbury , General Counsel; Paul M. Geier , Assistant General Counsel; Charles E. Enloe , Trial Attorney; United States Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C.; Arjun Garg , Chief Counsel; Jonathan W. Cross , Senior Attorney; Federal Aviation Administration; for Amicus Curiae United States.

Anton Metlitsky and Kendall Turner , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, New York; Chris Hollinger and Adam KohSweeney , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, San Francisco, California; Jason Zarrow , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California; Patricia N. Vercelli and Riva Parker , Airlines for America, Washington, D.C.; Sarah Pierce Wimberly , Andrew Duncan McClintock , and Jessica Lynn Asbridge , Ford Harrison LLP, Atlanta, Georgia; Jeffrey N. Shane and Leslie MacIntosh , International Air Transport Association, Geneva, Switzerland; for Amici Curiae Airlines for America, International Air Transport Association, and Regional Airline Association.

Adam G. Unikowsky , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C.; Steven P. Lehotsky , Janet Galeria , Daryl L. Joseffer , and Stephanie A. Maloney , U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General; Anastasia Sandstrom , Senior Counsel; Office of the Attorney General, Seattle, Washington; Phil Weiser , Attorney General, Denver, Colorado; William Tong , Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut, Kathleen Jennings , Attorney General, Wilmington, Delaware; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; Clare E. Connors , Attorney General, Honolulu, Hawaii; Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, Springfield, Illinois; Aaron M. Frey , Attorney General, Augusta, Maine; Maura Healey , Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Keith Ellison , Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; Jim Hood , Attorney General, Jackson, Mississippi; Aaron D. Ford , Attorney General, Carson City, Nevada; Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General, Trenton, New Jersey; Letitia James , Attorney General, New York, New York; Josh Stein , Attorney General, Raleigh, North Carolina; Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General, Salem, Oregon; Josh Shapiro , Attorney General, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Thomas J. Donovan Jr. , Attorney General, Montpelier, Vermont; Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia; for Amici Curiae Washington, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Virginia.

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Satoshi Yanai , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Mana Barari , Deputy Attorney General; California Department of Justice, Los Angeles, California; for Amicus Curiae State of California.

Kathleen P. Barnard , Darin M. Dalmat , and Kelly Ann Skahan , Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt LLP, Seattle, Washington, for Amicus Curiae Association of Flight Attendants-Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO.

Richard Pianka , American Trucking Associations, Arlington, Virginia, for Amici Curiae American Trucking Associations, Inc. and California Trucking Association.

Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General; Andrew A. Pinson , Solicitor General; Drew F. Waldbeser , Assistant Solicitor General; Zack W. Lindsey , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Atlanta, Georgia; Steve Marshall , Attorney General, Alabama; Leslie Rutledge , Attorney General, Arkansas; Daniel Cameron , Attorney General, Kentucky; Jeff Landry , Attorney General, Louisiana; Lynn Fitch , Attorney General, Mississippi; Austin Knudsen , Attorney General, Montana; Douglas J. Peterson , Attorney General, Nebraska; Dave Yost , Attorney General, Ohio; Alan Wilson , Attorney General, South Carolina; Jasbn R. Ravnsborg , Attorney General, South Dakota; Ken Paxton , Attorney General, Texas; Sean D. Reyes , Attorney General, Utah; for Amici Curiae Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah.

Before: J. CLIFFORD WALLACE and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges, and ROBERT S. LASNIK, District Judge.


ORDER AND AMENDED OPINION

ORDER

The opinion filed on February 23, 2021, and previously amended on March 8, 2021, is amended with the amended opinion filed concurrently with this order.

The panel unanimously voted to deny the petitions for panel rehearing. Judge M. Smith voted to deny the petitions for rehearing en bane, and Judges Wallace and Lasnik so recommended. The full court was notified of the petitions...

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