AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION v. BECERRA

Nos. 16-55727, 16-55786, 16-56855, 16-56902.

903 F.3d 1000 (2018)

AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Xavier BECERRA, in his Official Capacity as Attorney General of California, Defendant-Appellant. Americans for Prosperity Foundation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Xavier Becerra, in his Official Capacity as Attorney General of California, Defendant-Appellee. Thomas More Law Center, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Xavier Becerra, in his Official Capacity as Attorney General of the State of California, Defendant-Appellant. Thomas More Law Center, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Xavier Becerra, in his Official Capacity as Attorney General of the State of California, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 11, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexandra Robert Gordon (argued), Jose A. Zelidon-Zepeda , Kevin A. Calia , and Emmanuelle S. Soichet , Deputy Attorneys General; Tamar Pachter , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Douglas J. Woods , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Derek Shaffer (argued), William A. Burck , Eric C. Lyttle , Keith H. Forst , and Jonathan G. Cooper , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Washington, D.C.; Harold Barza , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Tara Malloy , J. Gerald Hebert , and Megan P. McAllen , Campaign Legal Center, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Campaign Legal Center.

Jeremy Talcott and Joshua P. Thompson , Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, for Amicus Curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.

Marc Rotenberg , Alan Butler , James T. Graves , and John Davisson , Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center.

David Weiner and Robert Leider , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae The Philanthropy Roundtable.

Keith Joseph Miller , Assistant Attorney General; Dominic E. Draye , Solicitor General; Mark Brnovich , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Phoenix, Arizona, for Amici Curiae States of Arizona, Alabama, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, Texas, and Wisconsin.

Mark Joseph Fitzgibbons , American Target Advertising, Manassas, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae American Target Advertising, Inc.

Allyson Newton Ho and John C. Sullivan , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dallas, Texas; C. Dean McGrath Jr. , McGrath & Associates, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Pacific Research Institute, Cato Institute, and Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Christopher H. McGrath and Samuel S. Sadeghi Paul Hastings LLP, Costa Mesa, California; George W. Abele , Paul Hastings LLP, Los Angeles, California; Brett Harvey , Alliance Defending Freedom, Scottsdale, Arizona; Nathaniel Bruno , Alliance Defending Freedom, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Alliance Defending Freedom.

Brian Timothy Burgess , Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, D.C.; David J. Zimmer , Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; for Amici Curiae NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Andrew P. Pugno , Law Offices of Andrew P. Pugno, Fair Oaks, California, for Amicus Curiae Proposition 8 Legal Defense Fund.

Herbert W. Titus , Jeremiah L. Morgan , William J. Olson , and Robert J. Olson , William J. Olson P.C., Vienna, Virginia; Joseph W. Miller , Ramona, California; Michael Boos , Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Free Speech Defense and Education Fund, Free Speech Coalition, Citizens United, Citizens United Foundation, National Right to Work Committee, U.S. Constitutional Rights Legal Defense Fund, U.S. Justice Foundation, Family Research Council, Western Center for Journalism, Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, The Leadership Institute, Public Advocate of the United States, Downsize DC Foundation, Downsize. Org, Gun Owners Foundation, Gun Owners of America, 60 Plus, 60 Plus Association, America's Foundation for Law and Liberty, America's Liberty Committee, Citizen Outreach Foundation, Citizen Outreach, LLC, Law Enforcement Alliance of America, Liberty Guard, Coalition for a Strong America, The Jesse Helms Center, Americans for Constitutional Liberty, Catholicvote.org, Eberle Communications Group, Inc., Clearword Communications Group, Davidson & Co., and JFT Consulting.

Before: Raymond C. Fisher, Richard A. Paez and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

We address the constitutionality of a California charitable registration requirement as applied to two nonprofit organizations that solicit tax-deductible contributions in the state. Americans for Prosperity Foundation (the Foundation) and Thomas More Law...

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