Asja

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS No. 20-55734

AND AUTHORS, INC.; NATIONAL

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS D.C. No. ASSOCIATION, 2:19-cv-10645- Plaintiffs-Appellants, PSG-KS

v.

OPINION

ROB BONTA *, Attorney General of the State of California, Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Philip S. Gutierrez, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 11, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed October 6, 2021

* Under Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(2), Rob Bonta has been substituted for his predecessor, Xavier Becerra, as California Attorney General. Before: Consuelo M. Callahan and Danielle J. Forrest, Circuit Judges, and Richard Seeborg, ** District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Callahan

SUMMARY ***

Civil Rights

The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a suit brought by the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Press Photographers Association challenging, on First Amendment and Equal Protection grounds, California’s Assembly Bill 5…