APRIL IN PARIS v. BONTA

No. 2:19-cv-02471-KJM-CKD, No. 2:19-cv-02488-KJM-CKD.

659 F.Supp.3d 1114 (2023)

APRIL IN PARIS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Rob BONTA, et al., Defendants. Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Rob Bonta, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

Filed March 7, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bret A. Sparks , PHV, Pro Hac Vice, David E. Frulla , PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Bezalel A. Stern , PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Elizabeth C. Johnson , PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Washington, DC, Christopher D. Hughes , Nossaman LLP, Sacramento, CA, Paul S. Weiland , Nossaman LLP, Irvine, CA, for Plaintiffs April in Paris, Amtan Louisiana, Brooks Family Alligator Farm, II, Hogwards Carry Goods, House of Bijan-RR, LLC, LA Duchesse, LTD, Larson Leather Company, Louisiana Alligator Farmers & Ranchers Association, Magna Leather Corporation, M&D Gator Products, Inc.

Elizabeth Baker Murrill , PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Louisiana Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General, Baton Rouge, LA, Jeffrey Harris , PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Bryan Kipp Weir , Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Arlington, VA, Joseph Scott St. John , PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Shae McPhee , PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Louisiana Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission.

Melinda Benge Brown , Law Office of Melinda Benge Brown, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Bryan Kipp Weir , Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Arlington, VA, for Plaintiff Delacroix Corporation.

M. Taylor Darden , PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier, Finn, LLC, New Orleans, LA, Bryan Kipp Weir , Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Arlington, VA, for Plaintiff Louisiana Landowners Association, Inc.

Christine Wild Ennis , United States Department of Justice, Environment And Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for Amicus United States Department of Justice.


ORDER

The parties in these consolidated cases each move for summary judgment on a narrow legal question: does the federal Endangered Species Act preempt California criminal laws that punish imports and sales of alligator and crocodile products? When Congress passed the Endangered Species...

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