Legal Opinion
Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. City of Long Beach
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 24, 1991No. Nos. 88-6745, 89-55278PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Per curiam
I. INTRODUCTION
We review a permanent injunction following ten years of litigation over efforts by the City of Long Beach to regulate noise emanating from aircraft using the Long Beach Municipal Airport. The litigation has been waged between the city, which owns and operates the airport, and various commercial airline passenger carriers who contended that the city’s ordinances unfairly limit their flights. The city here appeals the district court’s judgment permanently enjoining operation of the city’s most recent ordinance and preventing the city from reducing the number of permitted daily…
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