Becerra

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 The Fouke Company, No. 2:78-cv-00398-PCW Plaintiff, v. Edmund G. Brown, Defendant, _______________________________/ April in Paris, et al., No. 2:19-cv-02471-KJM-CKD Plaintiffs, v. ORDER AND RELATED CASE Rob Bonta, et al., ORDER Defendants. _______________________________/ In a previous order, this court granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs in this consolidated action. See Prev. Order (Mar. 7, 2023), ECF No. 78. In short, the court held that the federal Endangered Species Act partially preempts sections 653o and 653r of the California Penal Code insofar as those sections apply to certain alligator and crocodile products. See id. at 18–24. The Endangered Species Act expressly voids any state laws and regulations that effectively prohibit what federal laws and regulations permit, see 16 U.S.C. § 1535(f), and federal regulations permit some of the same trade…