RODRIGUEZ v. NEWSOM

No. 18-56281.

974 F.3d 998 (2020)

Paul RODRIGUEZ; Rocky Chavez; League of United Latin American Citizens; California League of United Latin American Citizens, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Gavin NEWSOM, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of California; Alex Padilla, Secretary of State of California, in his official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of California Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 8, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Boies (argued), Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Armonk, New York; James P. Denvir III , Amy J. Mauser , Karen L. Dunn , Lisa Barclay , Amy L. Neuhardt , Hamish P.M. Hume , and Katherine M. Cheng , Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Washington, D.C.; Trevor P. Stutz , Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Los Angeles, California; Luis Roberto Vera Jr. , LULAC National General Counsel, Law Offices of Luis Vera Jr., San Antonio, Texas; Jennier D. Hackett , James R. Martin , and Allison M. Vissichelli , Zelle LLP, Washington, D.C.; David H. Fry and J. Max Rosen , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, California; Michael B. Desanctis , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, D.C.; Scott A. Martin , Irving Scher , and Jeanette Bayoumi , Hausfeld LLP, New York, New York; Michael D. Hausfeld and Swathi Bojedla , Hausfeld LLP, Washington, D.C.; Samuel Issacharoff , New York, New York; Mark Guerrero and Mary Whittle , Guerrero & Whittle PLLC, Austin, Texas; Randall L. Allen , Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, Georgia; Maria Amelia Calaf , Jack A. Simms Jr. , Ryan A. Botkin , Katherine P. Chiarello , Karen S. Vladeck , and W. Reid Wittliff , Wittliff Cutter Austin PLLC, Austin, Texas; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

P. Patty Li (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Paul Stein , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Thomas S. Patterson , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Consuelo M. Callahan and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges, and Dana L. Christensen, District Judge.


OPINION

The State of California, like forty-seven other States and the District of Columbia, employs a winner-take-all ("WTA") approach to selecting its presidential electors. Under this system, the State awards all of its electors to the political party of the popular...

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