Bonta

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 South Bay Rod & Gun Club, Inc., et al., Case No.: 22cv1461-BEN (JLB)

Plaintiffs,

ORDER

v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al., 14 Defendants. 15 16 Plaintiffs seek injunctive relief from a newly-enacted California state law adding an attorney’s fees and costs shifting provision codified at California Code Civ. Procedure § 1021.11. Fee shifting provisions are not unusual in American law. But this one is.1 20

22 1 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, any person, including an entity, attorney, or law firm, who seeks declaratory or injunctive relief to prevent this state, a political 24 subdivision, a governmental entity or public official in this state, or a person in this state from enforcing any statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or any other type of law that regulates or restricts firearms, or that represents any litigant seeking that relief, is jointly 26 and severally liable to pay the attorney’s fees and costs of the prevailing party. (b) For purposes of this…