No. 19-251
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California
Tags: association civil-rights constitutional-rights donor-privacy due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech law-enforcement-interest naacp-v-alabama narrow-tailoring nonprofit nonprofit-association nonprofit-organizations standing
Key Terms:
FirstAmendment TradeSecret Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
FirstAmendment TradeSecret Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2021-01-08
(distributed 5 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the exacting scrutiny this Court has long required of laws that abridge the freedoms of speech and association outside the election context can be satisfied absent any showing that a blanket governmental demand for the individual identities and addresses of major donors to private nonprofit organizations is narrowly tailored to an asserted law-enforcement interest
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the exacting scrutiny this Court has long required of laws that abridge the freedoms of speech and association outside the election context—as called for by NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, 357 U.S. 449 (1958), and its progeny—can be satisfied absent any showing that a blanket governmental demand for the individual identities and addresses of major donors to private nonprofit organizations is narrowly tailored to an asserted law-enforcement interest.
Docket Entries
2021-08-02
JUDGMENT ISSUED.
2021-04-24
Motion of Thomas More Law Center to file a reply brief out of time GRANTED.
2021-04-17
Motion to file the reply brief out of time filed by petitioner Thomas More Law Center (in 19-255). (Distributed)
2021-04-16
Reply of petitioner Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed (in 19-251). (Distributed)
2021-04-05
Motion of petitioners for divided argument is DENIED; motion of petitioners for enlargement of time for oral argument is GRANTED, and the time is allotted as follows: 30 minutes for petitioners, 10 minutes for the Acting Solicitor General, and 30 minutes for respondent.
2021-04-05
Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
2021-03-31
Brief amici curiae of U.S. Senators filed (in 19-251). (Distributed)
2021-03-30
CIRCULATED
2021-03-15
Record requested.
2021-03-15
The record from the U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit is electronic and located on Pacer.
2021-03-01
Brief amici curiae of Cato Institute, et al. filed.
2021-03-01
Brief amicus curiae of Freedom Foundation filed.
2021-02-24
Brief amicus curiae of Council on American-Islamic Relations filed (in 19-251).
2021-02-22
Brief of petitioner Thomas More Law Center filed (in 19-255).
2021-02-22
Joint appendix filed (in 19-255). (Statement of costs filed.)
2021-02-22
Brief of petitioner Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed (in 19-251).
2021-02-22
Joint appendix filed (in 19-251). (Statement of costs filed)
2021-02-05
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Americans for Prosperity Foundation
2021-01-29
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Thomas More Law Center (in 19-255).
2020-12-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
2020-02-24
The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.
2020-02-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2020.
2020-01-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2020.
2020-01-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/17/2020.
2019-12-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-12-10
Reply of petitioner Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed.
2019-10-07
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including November 25, 2019.
2019-10-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 25, 2019 to November 25, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-09-25
Brief amici curiae of Pacific Research Institute, Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability filed.
2019-09-25
Brief amicus curiae of The Buckeye Institute filed.
2019-09-25
Brief amicus curiae of The National Association of Manufacturers filed.
2019-09-25
Brief amicus curiae of Council on American-Islamic Relations filed.
2019-09-25
Brief amicus curiae of Public Integrity Alliance filed.
2019-09-25
Brief amicus curiae of Judicial Watch, Inc. filed.
2019-09-25
Brief amici curiae of States of Arizona et al. filed.
2019-09-25
Brief amicus curiae of American Target Advertising, Inc. filed.
2019-09-24
Brief amicus curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation filed.
2019-09-24
Brief amicus curiae of Liberty Justice Center filed.
2019-09-11
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 25, 2019.
2019-09-09
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 25, 2019 to October 25, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-09-06
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
2019-08-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 25, 2019)
2019-05-28
Application (18A1224) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 27, 2019 to August 26, 2019, submitted to Justice Kagan.
2019-05-28
Application (18A1224) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until August 26, 2019.
Attorneys
24 Family Policy Organizations
Anita Yvonne Milanovich — Milanovich Law, PLLC, Amicus
American Center for Law and Justice
Jay Alan Sekulow — Amicus
American Civil Liberties Union, Inc., et al.
American Target Advertising, Inc.
Americans for Prosperity Foundation
Derek L. Shaffer — Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Petitioner
Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the ANA Non-Profit Federation
James Christopher Martin — Reed Smith LLP, Amicus
Campaign Legal Center, et al.
Paul March Smith — Campaign Legal Center, Amicus
Cato Institute
Ilya Shapiro — Cato Institute, Amicus
Center for Equal Opportunity
Thomas G. Hungar — Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Amicus
CharityWatch
Kathleen Roberta Hartnett — Cooley LLP, Amicus
China Aid Association
Andrew C. Nichols — Charis Lex P.C., Amicus
Citizen Power Initiatives for China
Kelly J. Shackelford — First Liberty Institute, Amicus
Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation
Jeremiah Lee Morgan — William J. Olson, P.C., Amicus
Concerned Women for America
Frederick W. Claybrook Jr. — Claybrook, LLC, Amicus
Congressman John Sarbanes and Democracy 21
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Free Speech Coalition, et al.
Herbert William Titus — William J. Olson, P.C., Amicus
William Jeffrey Olson — William J. Olson, P.C., Amicus
Freedom Foundation
James Gideon Abernathy — Freedom Foundation, Amicus
Goldwater Institute and Rio Grande Foundation
Timothy Mason Sandefur — Goldwater Institute, Amicus
Hispanic Leadership Fund
Jeffrey Matthew Harris — Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Amicus
Independent Women's Law Center
Kasdin Miller Mitchell — Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Amicus
Institute for Free Speech
Lisa Schiavo Blatt — Williams & Connolly LLP, Amicus
Owen Dennis Yeates — Institute for Free Speech, Amicus
Institute for Justice
Paul Michael Sherman — Institute for Justice, Amicus
James Madison Center for Free Speech
James Bopp Jr. — The Bopp Law Firm, PC, Amicus
Judicial Watch, Inc.
Robert D. Popper — Judicial Watch, Inc., Amicus
Legal Historians
Darin Murl Sands — Bradley Bernstein LLP, Amicus
Liberty Justice Center
Brian Kirk Kelsey — Liberty Justice Center, Amicus
National Council of Nonprofits
National Taxpayers Union Foundation and the Public Policy Legal Institute
Barnaby W. Zall — Law Office of Barnaby Zall, Amicus
Pacific Legal Foundation
Joshua Paul Thompson — Pacific Legal Foundation, Amicus
Pacific Legal Foundation, Southeastern Legal Foundation, and Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
Philanthropy Roundtable, Independent Women's Forum, and People United for Privacy Foundation
Proposition 8 Legal Defense Fund
Protect The 1st and Pacific Research Institute
Erik S. Jaffe — Schaerr | Jaffe LLP, Amicus
Public Citizen and Public Citizen Foundation
Public Integrity Alliance
Kory Alan Langhofer — Statecraft PLLC, Amicus
Public Interest Legal Foundation and Foundation for Michigan Freedom
Randy Elf
Randolph Scott Elf — Amicus
Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California
Aimee Athena Feinberg — California Department of Justice, Respondent
Scholars of the Law of Non-Profit Organizations
Senator Mitch McConnell
Donald Francis McGahn II — Jones Day, Amicus
State of Arizona
States of Arizona et al.
States of New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawai‘I, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia, and the District of Columbia
Barbara Dale Underwood — Solicitor General, Amicus
The American Legislative Exchange Council
Lee Elton Goodman — Wiley Rein LLP, Amicus
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
The Buckeye Institute
Jay Randall Carson — The Buckeye Institute, Amicus
Robert Daniel Alt — The Buckeye lnstitute, Amicus
The California Association of Nonprofits
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Caleb P. Burns — Wiley Rein LLP, Amicus
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, et al.
Brian Timothy Burgess — Goodwin Procter, LLP, Amicus
The Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression at Yale Law School
Floyd Abrams — Amicus
The Legacy Foundation
The National Association of Manufacturers
The National Association of Manufacturers, the Atlantic Legal Foundation, and National and State Trade Associations
Sean Marotta — Hogan Lovells US LLP, Amicus
The New Civil Liberties Alliance
The Nonprofit Alliance Foundation, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Association of Fundraising Professionals, and 123 Nonprofit Organizations Listed in Appendix as Amici Curiae
Thomas More Law Center
John J. Bursch — Alliance Defending Freedom, Petitioner
Thomas More Society
Thomas L. Brejcha — Thomas More Society, Amicus
U.S. Senators
United States
Brian H. Fletcher — Acting Solicitor General, Amicus