Bonta

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Los Altos Boots, et al., No. 2:21-cv-01652-KJM-CKD Plaintiffs, ORDER v. Rob Bonta, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 California’s Legislature recently amended Penal Code section 6530. See 2019 Cal. Legis. Serv. Ch. 767 (A.B. 1260) (West). Under that amendment, beginning on January 1, 2022, it will 19 be “unlawful to import into this state for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to sell, or to 20 sell within the state, the dead body, or any part or product thereof, of an iguana, skink, caiman, hippopotamus, or a Teju, Ring, or Nile lizard.” Cal. Penal Code § 6530(c); see also id. § 653r.' This case is about products made from caiman leather. Several businesses that sell these products 23 have brought this suit and assert the new state law conflicts with federal laws and regulations that 24 /////

' “Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3 of Chapter 1557 of the Statutes of 1970, it…