Summary: Federal lawsuit challenging California's "large capacity" magazine ban.
Plaintiffs: William Wiese, Jeremiah Morris, Lance Cowley, Sherman Macaston, Clifford Flores, L.Q. Dang, Frank Federeau, Alan Normandy, Todd Nielsen, California Gun Rights Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, FPC Action Foundation, Second Amendment Foundation.
Defendants: California Attorney General Rob Bonta, DOJ Bureau of Firearms Director Martin Horan
Litigation Counsel: George M. Lee, David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson, and William V. Bergstrom
Docket: E.D. CA case no. 2:17-cv-00903, Ninth Circuit case no. 25-6680 | CourtListener Docket
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Key Events & Filings:
- 2025-12-9: Order to Stay
- 2025-12-2: Appellants' Motion to Stay
- 2025-10-17: Plaintiffs' Notice of Appeal
- 2025-9-25: Order Lifting Stay and Granting Summary Judgment
- 2025-4-3: Joint Status Report Re: Stay of Proceedings Pending Duncan v. Bonta
- 2023-10-18: Order
- 2023-10-16: Joint Status Report Re: Stay of Proceedings Pending Duncan v. Bonta
- 2023-10-11: Order
- 2023-9-29: Defendants’ Reply in Support of Amended Counter-Motion for Summary Judgment
- 2023-9-8: Plaintiffs’ Amended Reply Memorandum in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment, and Opposition to Defendants’ Counter Motion for Summary Judgment
- 2023-8-18: Defendants’ Amended Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment and Counter-motion for Summary Judgment
- 2023-6-27: Order
- 2023-6-21: Defendants’ Reply in Support of Counter-Motion for Summary Judgment
- 2023-6-9: Order
- 2023-5-31: Plaintiffs’ Reply Memorandum in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment, and Opposition to Defendants’ Counter Motion for Summary Judgment
- 2023-5-1: Defendants’ Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment and Counter-Motion for Summary Judgment
- 2023-3-31: Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment
- 2022-11-4: Order RE: Joint Statement Continuing Status Conference RE: Further Proceedings
- 2022-10-19: Order Lifting Stay
- 2022-10-7: Joint Status Report Following Duncan v. Bonta
- 2020-8-28: Order Declining to Lift Stay
- 2019-5-8: Order Staying Case
- 2019-3-11: Defendants' Answer to Third Amended Complaint
- 2019-2-25: Memorandum & order denying in part and granting in part Defendants' motion to dismiss
- Proposed amicus curiae briefs were denied (see FN6: "The court finds no need to rule on the motions of Everytown for Gun Safety (Docket Nos. 96-97) and California Rifle & Pistol Association (Docket Nos. 100-01) to file amicus curiae briefs. The court has read the briefs and does not find that they add anything substantively to the dialogue.").
- 2019-2-12: Defendants' reply in support of motion to dismiss
- 2019-2-5: Plaintiffs' opposition to Defendants' motion to dismiss
- 2019-1-18: Defendants' notice and motion to dismiss Third Amended Complaint
- 2018-2-26: Third Amended Complaint
- 2017-4-28: Complaint
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