Andrew Teter v. Anne E. Lopez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ANDREW TETER; JAMES GRELL, No. 20-15948

Plaintiffs-Appellants, D.C. No. 1:19-cv-00183- v. ACK-WRP

ANNE E. LOPEZ; DARRYL NG,

ORDER

Defendants-Appellees.

Filed April 30, 2025

Before: Mary H. Murguia, Chief Judge, and Ronald M. Gould, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Ryan D. Nelson, Eric D. Miller, Bridget S. Bade, Daniel P. Collins, Kenneth K. Lee, Lawrence VanDyke, Gabriel P. Sanchez and Ana de Alba, Circuit Judges.

Order; Concurrence by Judge Miller; Concurrence by Judge Collins; Concurrence by Judge VanDyke SUMMARY *

Attorney’s Fees

The en banc court denied plaintiff Andrew Teter’s motion for attorney’s fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b) in a case involving a Second Amendment challenge to a Hawaii statute prohibiting butterfly knives. In a prior decision, the en banc court vacated, as moot, the district court’s summary judgment for the Hawaii Attorney General and the Hawaii Sheriff Division Administrator, concluding that the Hawaii Legislature’s amendment to the challenged statute gave plaintiff everything he hoped to…