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HASKELL v. HARRIS

No. 10-15152.

669 F.3d 1049 (2012)

Elizabeth Aida HASKELL; Reginald Ento; Jeffrey Patrick Lyons, Jr.; Aakash Desai, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Kamala D. HARRIS, Attorney General of California; Eva Steinberger, Assistant Bureau Chief for DNA Programs, California Department of Justice, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Withdrawn June 2, 2011.

Filed February 23, 2012.

Resubmitted November 1, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael T. Risher (argued), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, Inc., San Francisco, CA, and Peter C. Meier and Eric A. Long , Paul Hastings LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Daniel J. Powell , Deputy Attorney General (argued), Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General of California, James M. Humes , Chief Deputy Attorney General, Jonathan K. Renner , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Constance L. LeLouis , Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Enid A. Camps , Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Daniel J. Broderick , Federal Defender, David Porter , Assistant Federal Defender, Rachelle Barbour , Research and Writing Attorney, Sacramento, CA, and John T. Philipsborn , San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae Federal Defender of the Eastern and Southern Districts of California, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Jonathan S. Franklin , Tillman J. Breckenridge , and Mark T. Emery , Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae DNA Saves.

Anne Marie Schubert , Albert C. Locher , Jan Scully , and W. Scott Thorpe , Sacramento, CA, for amicus curiae California District Attorneys Association.

Opinion by Judge MILAN D. SMITH, JR.; Dissent by Judge WILLIAM A. FLETCHER.

OPINION

M. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-Appellants Elizabeth Aida Haskell, Reginald Ento, Jeffrey Patrick Lyons, Jr., and Aakash Desai (collectively, Plaintiffs) appeal the district court's denial of their motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the enforcement of the 2004 Amendment, infra, to California's DNA and Forensic Identification Data Base and Data Bank Act of 1998 (DNA Act), Cal.Penal Code § 296(a)(2)(C), which amendment requires...

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