BUFFIN v. CALIFORNIA

No. 20-15518.

23 F.4th 951 (2022)

Riana BUFFIN; Crystal Patterson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and City and County of San Francisco; Paul Miyamoto, Sheriff, Defendants-Appellees, v. State of CALIFORNIA; Rob Bonta, Defendants-Appellants, and California Bail Agents Association, Intervenor-Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 13, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose A. Zelidon-Zepeda (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Benjamin M. Glickman , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Thomas S. Patterson , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Rob Bonta , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellants.

Sadik Huseny (argued), Tyler P. Young , Aaron T. Chiu , and Abagil Parr , Latham & Watkins LP, San Francisco, California; Phil Telfeyan , Equal Justice Under Law, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Jeremy M. Goldman (argued), Co-Chief of Appellate Litigation; Office of the City Attorney, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Bobby R. Baldock, Kim McLane Wardlaw, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Riana Buffin and Crystal Patterson successfully challenged the application of the State of California's ("State") mandatory bail law in San Francisco through this official-capacity class action suit against the Sheriff for the City and County of San Francisco, who enforced California's bail law on behalf...

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