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POTRERO HILLS LANDFILL, INC. v. COUNTY OF SOLANO

No. 10-15229.

657 F.3d 876 (2011)

POTRERO HILLS LANDFILL, INC.; BLT Enterprises of Sacramento, Inc.; Brentwood Disposal Service, Inc.; Concord Disposal Service, Inc.; Contra Costa Waste Service, Inc.; Discovery Bay Disposal, Inc.; Oakley Disposal Service, Inc.; Pittsburg Disposal and Debris Box Service, Inc.; Rio Vista Sanitation Service, Inc.; Waste Connections, Inc.; Waste Connections of California, Inc., DBA El Dorado Disposal Service; Trashpros, LLC; West Coast Recycling and Transfer, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COUNTY OF SOLANO, Defendant-Appellee, Sierra Club; Northern California Recycling Association; Sprawldef, aka Sustainability, Parks, Recycling and Wildlife Defense Fund, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 13, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Slaughter , Beveridge and Diamond, Washington, D.C., and Lily N. Chinn , Beveridge and Diamond, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

James W. Laughlin , Deputy County Counsel, Fairfield, CA, for the defendant-appellee.

Robert S. Perlmutter , Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-intervenor-appellee Sierra Club.

John Douglas Moore , Henn, Etzel & Moore, Inc., Oakland, CA, for defendant-intervenor-appellee Northern California Recycling Association.

Kelly T. Smith , The Smith Firm, Sacramento, CA, for defendant-intervenor-appellee Sustainability, Parks, Recycling and Wildlife Legal Defense Fund.

Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

HAWKINS, Senior Circuit Judge:

Potrero Hills Landfill ("Potrero Hills"), a privately owned solid waste and recycling business in Solano County, California ("the County"), and twenty-two related businesses appeal the dismissal on Younger1 abstention grounds of their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for declaratory and injunctive relief challenging the constitutionality of a voter-enacted county ordinance restricting...

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