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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JERRY GRIFFIN, MICHELLE No. 2:19-cv-01477-MCE-DB BOLOTIN, MICHAEL SIENKIEWICZ, (and related cases) AND JAMES B. OERDING, No. 2:19-cv-01501-MCE-DB No. 2:19-cv-01506-MCE-DB Plaintiffs, No. 2:19-cv-01507-MCE-DB No. 2:19-cv-01659-MCE-DB v. ALEX PADILLA, in his official capacity as Secretary of State of California, 16 Defendant.

AND RELATED CASES. 19 On July 30, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the Presidential Tax and Transparency Act (“the Act”), enacted as Senate Bill 27, which requires, among other things, presidential candidates in the California primary to have disclosed their federal tax returns for the previous five years as a precondition to appearing on the State’s partisan primary ballot. By way of the above-captioned related actions, five sets of Plaintiffs seek to enjoin enforcement of that law by Defendants Governor Newsom, Alex Padilla, California’s Secretary of State, and Xavier Becerra, in 27 1 The Act…