BOWERS v. WHITMAN

Nos. 10-35966, 10-36029.

671 F.3d 905 (2012)

Jon BOWERS; Lynna Bowers; A.L. Bruner; Marilyn Bruner; Robert Ferns; Milton Gorden; Kathleen Gorden; Morton Gossett; Charles N. Hilkey, Jr.; Linda Jones; James Lavia; Marcia Lavia; Donald Litchfield; Melissa Litchfield; Jerry McCauley; Kathleen McCauley; Irma Payne; Harold Payne; Walter Phillips; Lyle Woodcock, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Richard WHITMAN; State of Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, Defendants-Appellees. Citizens for Constitutional Fairness, an Oregon nonprofit corporation; Pacific Western of Medford, L.L.C.; Duane Cross; Bud Kaufman; Gary Wirth; Douglas Sturgeon; Carl Offenbacher; Dorothy Lippke; Gary Lewellyn; Orville Eary; Joseph Dauenhauer; Myron Corcoran; Esther A. Corcoran; James Cochran; Ace Carter; Gordon S. Anderson; Don Rowlette; Al Gray; Ken Bigham; Arnold Cross; Maralou Cross; Marionann Kaufman; Cross & Kaufman Logging, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Velda Dickey, Plaintiff, v. Jackson County, a political Subdivision of the State of Oregon; Danny Jordan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 12, 2012.

Amended February 28, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Herbert Swift , Grants Pass, OR, for the Bowers plaintiffs-appellants.

Jack Herbert Swift , Grants Pass, OR (briefed and argued); William L. Bernard , Pueblo, CO (argued), for the Citizens plaintiffs-appellants.

G. Kevin Kiely and Tommy A. Brooks , Cable Huston Benedict Haagensen & Lloyd LLP, Portland, OR (briefed); George F. Hammond , Medford, OR (briefed and argued), for Jackson County, et al. defendants-appellees.

Stephanie L. Striffler , Oregon DOJ, Salem, OR (briefed and argued) and Shannon Reel , Oregon DOJ, Salem, OR (briefed), for Richard Whitman, et al. defendants-appellees and the State of Oregon amicus defendant-appellee.

Before: DAVID M. EBEL, MARSHA S. BERZON, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

The Opinion filed January 12, 2012, slip op. 237 [664 F.3d 1321], is amended as follows:

1. At slip op. 249; line 14. After <the right without committing a constitutional taking.>, include a footnote with the following text:

<We are aware that some of the Oregon state courts' decisions indicate that Measure 37 waivers constitute protected property interests...

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