labs in eight of its libraries. The Santa Cruz Public Library
Joint Powers Authority received $20,560 in E-rate discounts for
Internet access in 2001-02. The SCLS received between $3,000 and
$5,000 this year in E-rate discounts for Internet access.
The Fort Vancouver Regional Library District Board is a
public board whose members are appointed by elected county
commissioners. The Multnomah County Library is a county
department, whose board is appointed by the county chair and
confirmed by the other commissioners. The SCLS is an aggregation
of 51 independently governed statutory member public libraries,
whose relationship to SCLS is defined by state law. The
governing body of the SCLS is the Library Board of Trustees,
which consists of 20 members nominated by county executives and
ratified by county boards of supervisors.
2. Patron and Patron Association Plaintiffs


Plaintiffs Association of Community Organizations for Reform
Now, Friends of the Philadelphia City Institute Library, and the
Pennsylvania Alliance for Democracy are nonprofit organizations
whose members include individuals who access the Internet at
public libraries that receive E-rate discounts or LSTA funds for
the provision of public Internet access. We note for the purpose
of associational standing that the interests that these
organizations seek to protect in this litigation are germane to
their purposes.
Plaintiffs Emmalyn Rood, Mark Brown, Elizabeth Hrenda, C.
Donald Weinberg, Sherron Dixon, by her father and next friend
Gordon Dixon, James Geringer, Marnique Tynesha Overby, by her
next friend Carolyn C. Williams, William J. Rosenbaum, Carolyn C.