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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 CREIGHTON MELAND, JR., No. 2:19-cv-02288-JAM-AC Plaintiff, v. ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

SHIRLEY N. WEBER, in her official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of California, 13 Defendant. 14 15 I. INTRODUCTION This lawsuit is one of multiple ongoing legal challenges to California Senate Bill No. 826 (“SB 826”). See Crest v. Padilla, Case No. 19STCV27651, 2019 WL 3371990 (Cal. Super. 2019); Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment v. Weber, No. 2:21-cv-01951- JAM-AC (E.D. Cal. 2021); National Center for Public Policy Research v. Weber, No. 2:21-cv-02168-JAM-AC (E.D. Cal. 2021). Signed into law by Governor Brown in 2018, SB 826 requires publicly held corporations headquartered in the state to have at least one woman on their board of directors. Cal. Corp. Code § 301.3(a). The minimum number is set to increase after December 31, 2021; specifically, while a corporation with four or…