GREEN v. MISS U.S. OF AMERICA, LLC

No. 21-35228.

52 F.4th 773 (2022)

Anita Noelle GREEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MISS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, LLC, dba United States of America Pageants, a Nevada limited liability corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

FILED November 2, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shenoa Payne (argued), Shenoa Payne Attorney at Law PC, Portland, Oregon, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Cody S. Barnett (argued), Alliance Defending Freedom, Lansdowne, Virginia; Bryan D. Neihart and Katherine L. Anderson , Alliance Defending Freedom, Scottsdale, Arizona; John J. Bursch , Alliance Defending Freedom, Washington, D.C.; John Kaempf , Kaempf Law Firm PC, Portland, Oregon; for Defendant-Appellee.

Jeffrey R. White and Amy L. Brogioli , American Association for Justice, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae American Association for Justice.

Carson L. Whitehead , Assistant Attorney General; Benjamin Gutman , Solicitor General; Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General; Office of the Oregon Attorney General, Portland, Oregon; for Amicus Curiae State of Oregon.

Peter C. Renn and Nora Huppert , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, and National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Christina Stephenson , Meyer Stephenson, Portland, Oregon; Phil Goldsmith , Law Office of Phil Goldsmith, Portland, Oregon; for Amicus Curiae Oregon Trial Lawyers Association.

Eugene Volokh ; Anastasia Thatcher , So-Young Kim , and Aaron Boudaie , Certified Law Students; First Amendment Clinic, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae Libertarian Law Council and Institute for Free Speech.

Lauren R. Adams , Women's Liberation Front, Washington, D.C.; Lauren A. Bone , Women's Liberation Front, Glendale, Wisconsin; for Amicus Curiae Women's Liberation Front.

Anna St. John , Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Pinnacle Peak Pictures.

Michael A. Cantrell , Assistant Solicitor General; Vincent M. Wagner , Deputy Solicitor General; Nicholas J. Bronni , Solicitor General; Leslie Rutledge , Attorney General; Office of the Arkansas Attorney General, Little Rock, Arkansas; Steve Marshall , Attorney General, Office of the Alabama Attorney General; Mark Brnovich , Attorney General, Office of the Arizona Attorney General; Lawrence G. Wasden , Attorney General, Office of the Idaho Attorney General; Jeff Landry , Attorney General, Office of the Louisiana Attorney General; Lynn Fitch , Attorney General, Office of the Mississippi Attorney General; Austin Knudsen , Attorney General, Office of the Montana Attorney General; Douglas J. Peterson , Attorney General, Office of the Nebraska Attorney General; John M. O'Connor , Attorney General, Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General; Alan Wilson , Attorney General, Office of the South Carolina Attorney General; Jason R. Ravnsborg , Attorney General, Office of the South Dakota Attorney General; Ken Paxton , Attorney General, Office of the Texas Attorney General; for Amici Curiae State of Arkansas, State of Alabama, State of Arizona, State of Idaho, State of Louisiana, State of Mississippi, State of Montana, State of Nebraska, State of Oklahoma, State of South Carolina, State of South Dakota, and State of Texas.

Aaron T. Martin , Martin Law & Mediation PLLC, Phoenix, Arizona; for Amici Curiae Past Pageant Participants.

Dissent by Judge Graber


OPINION

I.

Anita Green, who self-identifies as "an openly transgender female," sued the Miss United States of America pageant, alleging that the Pageant's "natural born female" eligibility requirement violates the Oregon Public Accommodations Act ("OPAA"). The district court granted the Pageant's motion...

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