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Public Policy Matters

First Amendment, Firearms, Race Preferences, Election Matters & More

First Amendment Matters

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  • Brought successful First Amendment challenges to schools’ enforcement of dress code policies that infringed students’ right to express their political views. Guardanapo v. Washoe Cty. Sch. Dist., D. Nev. No. 3:18-cv-172; Barnes v. Liberty High Sch., D. Or. No. 3:18-cv-877.

  • Obtained permanent injunction against fee-shifting statute directed at chilling legal challenges to firearm regulations. Miller v. Bonta, 646 F. Supp. 3d 1218 (S.D. Cal. 2022).

  • Obtained permanent injunction in First Amendment challenge to statute prohibiting firearms dealers from displaying handgun advertisements on their premises. Tracy Rifle & Pistol LLC v. Harris, 339 F.Supp.3d 1007 (E.D. Cal. 2018).

  • Successfully defended state legislator in defamation action over campaign advertisement. Reed v. Gallagher, 248 Cal.App.4th 841 (2016).

  • Obtained injunction enjoining the enforcement of a statute prohibiting the publication of public officials’ contact information on the Internet on First Amendment grounds. Publius v. Boyer-Vine, 237 F.Supp.3d 997 (E.D. Cal. 2017).

  • Brought successful First Amendment challenge to statute prohibiting the use of the public video feed from the California State Assembly “for any political or commercial purpose.” Firearms Pol’y Coalition Second Amend. Defense Comm. v. Harris, 192 F.Supp.3d 1120 (E.D. Cal. 2016).

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Firearms Matters

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  • Litigating privacy-based challenge to California law requirement that firearms owners’ personal data be shared with researchers without owners’ knowledge or consent. 

  • Challenging lawfulness of ATF’s “pistol brace” rule in the Fifth Circuit. 

  • Challenging California’s designations of multiple new supposed “sensitive places” to effectively ban the right to carry in California. 

  • Litigating the lawfulness of California’s “handgun roster” setting out the list of semiautomatic handguns that may be sold in the state.  

  • Successfully challenged California Department of Justice policy as void for failure to comply with the Administrative Procedures Act and inconsistent with the governing statute. Doe v. Becerra, 20 Cal.App.5th 330 (2018).

Race Preferences

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  • Brought successful Equal Protection challenge to Oregon’s race-based Covid-19 relief program. Great Northern Resources, Inc. v. Coba, D. Or. No. 3:20-cv-1866. 

  • Litigating challenge to multiple state and local “universal income” programs in California.

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Election Matters

We have represented:

  • Secured writ of mandate extending deadline for recall proponents to circulate petitions to recall governor. Heatlie v. Padilla, Sacramento Cty. Super Ct. Case No. 34-2020-80003499.

  • Represented official opponents of Proposition 16 (the 2020 effort to reverse the initiative outlawing race preferences in education and government contracting) in multiple pre-election challenges.

  • Represented recall candidate in successfully opposing Governor Newsom’s efforts to evade state law governing party identification on recall ballot. Newsom v. Weber, Sacramento Cty. Super Ct. Case No. 34-2021-80003666.

  • Obtained reversal of trial court’s dismissal of election contest. Pini v. Fenley, 9 Cal.App.5th 67 (2017).

Additional

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  • Representing multiple parties seeking disclosure of government records under the California Public Records Act relating to anti-Semitic activism by government employees. 

  • Represented Professional Disc Golf Association in litigation challenging organization’s transgender policy. Ryan v. Prof’l Disc Golf Ass’n, E.D. Cal. No. 2:23-cv-324.

  • Represented parties in administrative disputes with, and investigations by, multiple California agencies, including the Department of Insurance, Secretary of State, Department of Corporations, Transportation Commission, Department of Consumer Affairs, and Horse Racing Board

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