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• In re Grand Jury Subpoena (5th Cir.) -- Appellee
  • This is an appeal from the denial of a motion to quash a grand jury subpoena
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Appellee [PDF] (filed under seal)	3/11/09

• United States v. City of Detroit (6th Cir.) -- Appellee
  • The district court correctly denied the Coalition's motion to intervene as of right
  • The Coalition is not entitled to permissive intervention
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Appellee [PDF]	04/07/04
  Appeal dismissed	01/24/05

• Boswell v. SkyWest Airlines, Inc. (10th Cir.) -- Amicus Curiae
  • An air carrier may choose not to provide passengers with medical oxygen without showing that providing it would be an undue hardship or fundamental alteration
  • The Air Carrier Access Act of 1986 does not create a private cause of action
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus[PDF]	11/24/03
  Court of Appeals Decision, reported at 361 F.3d 1263	03/16/04

• United States v. City of Los Angeles (9th Cir.) -- Appellee
  • Community groups and private individuals are not entitled to intervene in a case in order to enforce the consent decree entered between the United States and the City of Los Angeles resolving allegations of systemic police misconduct
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Appellee [HTML] [PDF]	07/27/01
  Court of Appeals decision [PDF], reported at 288 F.3d 391	04/22/02

• United States v. City of Los Angeles (9th Cir.) -- Appellee
  • Court of Appeals should deny the police union's motion for a stay pending its appeal of the district court's denial of its motion to intervene in the case between the United States and the City of Los Angeles regarding the operations of the Los Angeles Police Department
  • Police union was not entitled to intervene in case to challenge consent decree between the United States and City of Los Angeles to resolve allegations of systemic police misconduct when the consent decree imposed no obligations upon the union or its members and did not affect officers' collective bargaining rights
  
   

  Document	Date
  Opposition to Stay [HTML] [PDF]	03/22/01
  Court of Appeals denial of stay, unpublished	04/16/01
  Brief as Appellee [HTML] [PDF]	06/04/01
  Court of Appeals decision [PDF], reported at 288 F.3d 391	04/22/02

• United States v. City of Los Angeles (9th Cir.) -- Appellee
  • Police union lacked standing to bring independent action seeking injunction against entry of a consent decree in a separate case between the United States and the City of Los Angeles regarding the operations of the Los Angeles Police Department.
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Appellee [HTML] [PDF]	05/30/01
  Court of Appeals decision, unpublished	04/22/02

• Coleman v. General Motors Acceptance Corporation (6th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • District court did not abuse its discretion in certifying a plaintiff class lawsuit alleging disparate impact racial discrimination under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [HTML] [PDF]	03/14/01
  Court of Appeals Decision [PDF], reported at 296 F.3d 443	07/22/02

• Cason v. Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation (6th Cir.) -- Amicus
  • District court did not abuse its discretion in certifying a plaintiff class lawsuit alleging disparate impact racial discrimination under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Amicus [HTML]  [PDF]	02/16/01
  Court of Appeals decision, unpublished	01/07/02

• Stevenson v. District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (D.C. Cir.) -- Intervenor
  • District court properly refused to order the United States to disclose internal documents regarding an ongoing investigation of police misconduct
  
   

  Document	Date
  Brief as Intervenor [HTML] [PDF]	12/28/00
  Court of Appeals decision [HTML], reported at 248 F.3d 1187	05/01/01