Legal Opinion
Labor/Community Strategy Center v. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 5, 2009No. 06-56866PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises after fourteen years of litigation concerning public transit in Los Angeles County. In 1994, the Labor/ Community Strategy Center and other Los Angeles County community organizations and local residents, known collectively as the “Bus Riders Union” or “BRU,” brought a civil rights class action against the County’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, charging the MTA with unlawfully discriminating against “inner-city and transit dependent bus riders” in its allocation of public transportation resources. The case did not go to trial; rather, in…
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