Southwest Voter Registration Education Project; Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; California State Conference of Branches, Plaintiffs-appellants, v. Kevin Shelley, in His Official Capacity As California Secretary of State, Defendant-appellee,ted Costa, Intervenor-appellee, 344 F.3d 913 (9th Cir. 2003)

Alan L. Schlosser, Esq., Margaret C. Crosby, Esq., American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, Jordan C. Budd, Esq., ACLU Foundation of San Diego, San Diego, CA, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Esq., Peter Eliasberg, Esq., Ben Wizner, Catherine E. Lhamon, Esq., ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Erwin Chemerinsky, USC Law School, Los Angeles, CA, Daniel P. Tokaji, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Charles P. Diamond, Esq., Robert M. Schwartz, Esq., Law Offices, Los Angeles, CA, for Intervenor-Appellee.

Douglas J. Woods, Esq., Attorney General's Office, Susan Roche Oie, State of California, Department of Justice, William Lockyer, Esq., State of California, Attorney General's Office, Sacramento, CA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Lloyd W. Pellman, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, Bruce Margolin, Esq., Law Offices of Bruce M. Margolin, West Hollywood, CA, James F. Sweeney, Esq., Sweeney & Grant LLP, Sacramento, CA, Robert Trent Jones, Jr., Palo Alto, CA, for Amicus.

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION

SCHROEDER, Chief Judge.