PIMENTEL v. DREYFUS

No. 11-35237.

670 F.3d 1096 (2012)

Monica Navarro PIMENTEL, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated persons, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Susan DREYFUS, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 29, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay D. Geck (argued) and Joseph Christy (briefed), Office of the State Attorney General, Olympia, WA, for the defendant-appellant.

Gregory D. Provenzano , (briefed and argued), Columbia Legal Services, Olympia, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Susanna Y. Chu , Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus Legal Momentum.

Before: MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, M. MARGARET MCKEOWN, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Plaintiff Monica Navarro Pimentel ("Pimentel") represents a class of legal immigrants in the state of Washington adversely affected by its recent termination of a state-funded food assistance program for legal immigrants, which exclusively benefitted Washington resident aliens who became ineligible for federal food stamps following the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

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