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Reed v. United Teachers Los Angeles
Publication Date: 2012-08-13
Practice Area: education law and organizations
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Court: C.A. 2nd
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For plaintiff: Morrison & Foerster, Miriam A. Vogel, Jack Londen, Sean Gates, Hailly T.N. Korman; ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Mark D. Rosenbaum, David Sapp, Brooks M. Allen; Public Counsel Law Center, Catherine E. Lhamon, Maureen Carroll, Laura Faer and Hernan Vera, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.
For defendant: Holguin, Garfield, Martinez & Quiñonez, Jesús E. Quiñonez; Altshuler Berzon, Stephen P. Berzon, Jeffrey B. Demain, Eileen B. Goldsmith, Danielle E. Leonard, and P. Casey Pitts, for Defendant and Appellant. California Department of Education, Amy Bisson Holloway and Edmundo Aguilar for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant. David R. Holmquist, Alexander A. Molina, Marcos F. Hernandez, Aram Kouyoumdjian; Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Mary L. Dowell and Meredith G. Karasch, for Defendant and Respondent Los Angeles Unified School District. Kirkland & Ellis, Diana M. Torres and Elisa L. Miller, for Defendant and Respondent Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. Horvitz & Levy, Robert H. Wright, Jeremy B. Rosen and Josephine K. Mason for Senator Bob Huff, Senator Gloria Romero (Ret.), Democrats for Education Reform, Communities for Teaching Excellence, Families in Schools, Lanai Road Education Action Committee, Reverend Eric P. Lee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference — Los Angeles, Rabbi Ron Stern, Members of the Public Education Advocacy Group of Stephen S. Wise Temple, Adam Kuppersmith, Karen Sykes-Orpe, Matthew J. Orique, and Lindi Williams as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents. Peter B. Morrison, George C. Fatheree III and Winston P. Hsiao for Certain Individual Members of United Teachers Los Angeles as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents.
Case number: No. B230817

Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 9196 SHARAIL REED et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. UNITED TEACHERS LOS ANGELES,

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