Royce v. Bonta
- Proceeding
- district
- Area
- civil
- Panel
- Marilyn L. Huff (author)
Analysis
The court received a motion to dismiss a Third Amended Complaint and noted the recent Second Circuit decision in Miller v. McDonald. The court ordered the parties to be prepared to address the applicability of Miller v. McDonald at the upcoming hearing on the motion to dismiss.
| What the court decided | The model |
|---|---|
Order requesting parties be prepared to address Second Circuit case at hearing“The Court requests that the parties be prepared to discuss Miller v. McDonald at the hearing scheduled for March 10, 2025.” | agree with court The order is a procedural directive to prepare for a hearing, not a final judgment on the merits or a ruling on a motion. It does not apply a legal standard to resolve a dispute but rather manages the litigation process in light of new, potentially relevant case law. |
The order itself: sound — The order is a scheduling and preparation directive. It does not contain legal reasoning or a final decision on the merits, so it is neither sound nor questionable in the traditional sense of judicial reasoning. It is a standard procedural order.
Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 10 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 11 12 SARA ROYCE; SARAH CLARK; Case No.: 3:23-cv-02012-H-BLM TIFFANY BROWN; and KRISTI 13 CARAWAY, ORDER REQUESTING PARTIES BE 14 PREPARED TO ADDRESS SECOND Plaintiffs, CIRCUIT CASE AT HEARING 15 v. 16 TOMÁS ARAGÓN, in his official 17 capacity as the State Public Health Officer, 18 Defendant. 19 20 21 On December 20, 2024, Plaintiffs Sara Royce, Sarah Clark, Tiffany Brown, and 22 Kristi Caraway filed a Third Amended Complaint (“TAC”) against Defendant Tomás 23 Aragón. (Doc. No. 48.) On January 10, 2025, Defendant Aragón filed a motion to dismiss 24 the TAC. (Doc. No. 50.) A hearing on Defendant’s motion is currently set for March 10, 25 2025, at 1:30 p.m. (Doc. No. 56.) 26 On March 3, 2025, the Second Circuit issued a decision in the case Miller v. 27 McDonald, __ F. 4th __, 2025 WL 665102 (2d Cir. 2025), involving a free exercise 28 challenge to a school immunization law. The Court requests that the parties be prepared 1 || to discuss Miller v. McDonald at the hearing scheduled for March 10, 2025. 2 3 IT IS SO ORDERED. 4 ||DATED: March 5, 2025 I |. JI { fd 5 MARILYN L. HUFF, District J 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 8 9 10 1] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28