| 25A810 |
Elizabeth Mirabelli, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Application |
california-education free-exercise opt-out-policies parental-rights religious-liberty substantive-due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 25-198 |
Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Pending |
ammunition-ban common-use firearms-regulation property-rights second-amendment takings-clause |
1. Whether a ban on the possession of exceedingly common ammunition feeding devices violates the Second Amendment.
2. Whether a law dispossessing cit… |
| 25-173 |
Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause economic-regulation interstate-commerce market-discrimination state-law |
Whether a state law that discriminates against firms engaged in interstate commerce by forcing firms to choose between being part of the enacting stat… |
| 24A1191 |
Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
en-banc-review firearms-regulation magazine-capacity second-amendment self-defense strict-scrutiny |
Whether a state law prohibiting possession of commonly used firearms magazines with more than ten rounds violates the Second Amendment right to keep a… |
| 24A1185 |
Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights court-of-appeals extension-of-time ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting summary judgment in a civil rights case |
| 24-932 |
Pierre Kory, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Pending |
content-neutrality first-amendment medical-communication physician-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule that all physician communications with patients are unprotected by the First Amendment is consistent with NIFLA and s… |
| 24-728 |
Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test |
Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce states a claim under Pike v. Bruce Church, and whether lower fe… |
| 24A670 |
Pierre Kory, MD, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
covid-19 first-amendment government-regulation medical-speech physician-speech strict-scrutiny |
Whether physicians' speech about medical treatments and Covid-19 recommendations is fully protected by the First Amendment or can be regulated as medi… |
| 24A400 |
Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
agricultural-regulation ballot-measure dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce ninth-circuit state-law |
Whether a state ballot measure regulating agricultural production methods imposes an undue burden on interstate commerce in violation of the dormant C… |
| 23-7316 |
David James Lack v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
case-document civil-rights court-filing due-process judicial-process juror-misconduct jury-selection legal-document new-trial petition prosecutorial-misconduct related-cases |
Whether a juror who concealed material information during voir dire should be disqualified from serving on a jury, and whether a juror's improper cond… |
| 23-207 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
engine-manufacturers federal-law federal-preemption national-meat ninth-circuit preemption product-standards sales-ban sales-bans state-standards tobacco-control-act |
Whether the Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts state and local laws that prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products |
| 22-865 |
Mobilize the Message, LLC, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
campaign-finance campaign-material civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech independent-contractor independent-contractors political-canvassing political-speech speech-regulation |
Whether regulating canvassing and the delivery of printed material based on that speech's content, function, or purpose implicates the First Amendment |
| 22-472 |
Association des Éleveurs de Cananards et D'oies du Quebéc, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption impossibility-preemption ingredient-preemption ingredient-requirements poultry-products poultry-products-inspection-act state-regulation usda-approval usda-regulation |
Whether a State may avoid express ingredient preemption under the Poultry Products Inspection Act by banning the sale of poultry products based on the… |
| 22A242 |
Association des Éleveurs de Cananards et D'oies Du Quebéc, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-156 |
David Douglas Fennell v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
anti-SLAPP-law civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech jury-trial jury-trial-rights political-assembly right-to-assemble |
Is California's anti-SLAPP law constitutional? |
| 21-1194 |
Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
GVR |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process magazine-ban property-rights scrutiny-standard second-amendment self-defense standing takings takings-clause |
Whether a blanket, retrospective, and confiscatory law prohibiting ordinary law-abiding citizens from possessing magazines in common use violates the … |
| 21-1172 |
American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
content-based content-based-law employment-classification financial-burdens first-amendment function-of-speech independent-contractor purpose-of-speech regulatory-burdens speech-regulation tax-burden |
Is a law content-based when it imposes financial and regulatory burdens based on the function or purpose of speech? |
| 21-678 |
Big Sandy Rancheria Enterprises v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
28-usc-1362 cigarette-sales federal-charter federal-indian-law indian-reorganization-act indian-tribe preemption tribal-sovereignty |
Whether an Indian tribe incorporated by federal charter under section 17 of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 is authorized to bring suit under 28… |
| 21-5859 |
Shikeb Saddozai v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
actual-innocence aedpa-statute brady-material certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case statute-of-limitations |
Whether Petitioner seeking a COA demonstrated a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right |
| 21-5384 |
William A. Masters v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process executive-taking fourteenth-amendment property-rights property-seizure standing state-remedies takings |
Must a Citizen exhaust his State's remedies before filing in the Federal Court for a decision upon a Constitutional issue? |
| 21-194 |
California Trucking Association, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-owner-operator independent-owner-operators motor-carrier motor-carriers preemption state-law statutory-interpretation trucking-services workforce-law |
Whether the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act preempts a state law that effectively precludes motor carriers from using independent ow… |
| 21-126 |
Lucio A. Barroga v. Board of Administration of California Public Employees' Retirement System |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings retirement-benefits statutory-interpretation |
Whether the refusal or denial of the MEMORANDUM and ORDER to interpret the issues of questions of laws violated laws |
| 20-8135 |
Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Dismissed |
coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment |
Whether a person convicted while suffering from severe mental impairment can invoke the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and cause of the acti… |
| 20-1215 |
North American Meat Institute v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
agricultural-regulation animal-welfare commerce-clause constitutional-limits dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce preemption state-police-power |
Whether the Constitution permits California to extend its police power beyond its territorial borders by banning the sale of wholesome pork and veal p… |
| 19-793 |
Institute for Free Speech v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
GVR |
civil-rights compelled-disclosure donor-disclosure exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech nonprofit nonprofit-association standing state-action strict-scrutiny |
Whether a state official's demand for all significant donors to a nonprofit organization, as a precondition to engaging in constitutionally-protected … |
| 19-251 |
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Judgment Issued |
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 |
Whether the exacting scrutiny this Court has long required of laws that abridge the freedoms of speech and association outside the election context ca… |
| 19-255 |
Thomas More Law Center v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Judgment Issued |
charitable-organizations circuit-split civil-rights disclosure-requirements donor-anonymity due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech nonprofit strict-scrutiny |
Whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden non-electoral, expressive association rights |