FARRAKHAN v. GREGOIRE

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ryan P. Haygood (argued), John Payton , Theodore Shaw , Norman J. Chachkin , Debo P. Adegbile , Kristen Clarke and Dale E. Ho , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Danielle C. Gray , New York, NY, and Lawrence A. Weiser , University Legal Assistance at Gonzaga Law School, Spokane, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert M. McKenna (argued), Attorney General, Daniel J. Judge , Senior Counsel, and Jeffrey T. Even and William B. Collins , Deputy Solicitors General, Olympia, WA, for the defendants-appellees.

Derek S. Tarson and Marianne Koh , Of Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY, for amici curiae Twenty-Three Leading Criminologists.

Sharon L. Browne and Ralph W. Kasarda , Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for amici curiae Pacific Legal Foundation and Center for Equal Opportunity.

Thomas C. Goldstein , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, D.C., and Pamela S. Karlan and Jeffrey L. Fisher , Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford, CA, for amici curiae Thirteen Law Professors.

Daniel F. Kolb and Edmund Polubinski III , Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY, for amicus curiae Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

Juan Cartagena , Community Service Society, New York, NY, for amicus curiae Community Service Society.

Elizabeth B. Wydra , Douglas T. Kendall and David H. Gans , Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Constitutional Accountability Center.

Whitty Somvichian , Kyle C. Wong , Kelly Cooke and Tyler Onitsuka , Cooley LLP, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Equal Justice Society, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and American Parole and Probation Association.

Sarah A. Dunne and Nancy Talner , American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Foundation, Seattle, WA, Peter A. Danelo , Seattle, WA, Leonard J. Feldman , P.K. Runkles-Pearson and Daniel A. Swedlow , Stoel Rives LLP, Seattle, WA, and Laughlin McDonald and Nancy G. Abudu , ACLU Voting Rights Project, Atlanta, GA, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and American Civil Liberties Union.

Lawrence S. Lustberg and Jennifer B. Condon , Gibbons P.C., Newark, NJ, for amici curiae National Black Police Association, National Latino Officers Association, American Probation and Parole Association and Six Former Law Enforcement Officials.

PER CURIAM Opinion; Concurrence by Judge THOMAS; Concurrence by Judge GRABER.