GOLDEN GATE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION, an incorporated non-profit trade association, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Defendant, and
San Francisco Central Labor Council; Service Employees International Union, Healthcare Workers-West; Service Employees International Union, Local 1021; Unite Here Local 2, Defendant-intervenors-Appellants.
Golden Gate Restaurant Association, an incorporated non-profit trade association, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
City and County of San Francisco, Defendant-Appellant, and
San Francisco Central Labor Council; Service Employees International Union, Healthcare Workers-West; Service Employees International Union, Local 1021; Unite Here Local 2, Defendant-intervenors.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted April 17, 2008.
Filed September 30, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Stephen P. Berzon, Scott A. Kronland and Stacey M. Leyton, Altshuler Berzon, Vince Chhabria, Office of the City Attorney, San Francisco, CA, Jeffrey Lewis, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C., Oakland, CA, for appellants.
Curtis A. Cole and Joshua Traver, Cole Pedroza, LLP, Pasadena, CA, Richard C. Rybicki, Dickenson, Peatman, & Fogarty, Napa, CA, Patrick Sutton, Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty, Santa Rosa, CA, for appellee.
Leslie Robert Stellman, Hodes, Pessin & Katz, Towson, MD, for amicus National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation.
Jon W. Breyfogle, Groom Law Group, Washington, D.C., for amicus American Benefits Council.
James P. Baker, Jones Day, San Francisco, CA, for amicus Employers Group.
Jeffrey A. Berman, Sidley Austin, Los Angeles, CA, for amicus California Chamber of Commerce.
Thomas L. Cubbage, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for amici ERISA Industry Committee and National Business Group of California.
Edward D. Sieger, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., for amicus Secretary of Labor.
Thomas M. Christina, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Greenville, SC, for amici International Franchise Association, National Association of Manufacturers, and Society for Human Resource Management, Michael D. Peterson, Washington, D.C., for amicus HP Policy Association.
Eugene Scalia, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Washington D.C., for amici Retail Industry Leaders Association and Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Barbara Jones, Jay E. Sushelsky, Mary Ellen Signorille, AARP Foundation Litigation, Pasadena, CA, for Amicus AARP.
Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Douglas M. Press, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Gordon Burns, Deputy Solicitor General, Karin S. Schwartz, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Beverley R. Meyers, Sarah E. Kurtz, Hadara R. Stanton, Benjamin J. Riley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Amicus Curiae State of California.
Before: ALFRED T. GOODWIN, STEPHEN REINHARDT, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Golden Gate Restaurant Association ("the Association") challenges the employer spending requirements of the newly enacted San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance ("the Ordinance"). The Association argues that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") preempts the employer spending requirements of the Ordinance either because those requirements create a "plan" within the meaning of ERISA...
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