From AP (Julie Watson):
U.S. District Choose Roger T. Benitez stated he plans to difficulty an injunction as a result of the regulation would pressure individuals who problem any of California’s famously restrictive gun legal guidelines to pay the federal government’s authorized charges in the event that they lose.
Benitez stated this might have a “chilling impact” on the general public’s proper to problem the federal government in courtroom as a result of folks wouldn’t need to take the danger of being accountable for costly authorized charges….
Benitez has not formally issued his ruling but, however introduced his resolution throughout a listening to at a federal courthouse in San Diego….
The regulation is modeled after a Texas measure handed in 2021 that aimed to implement that state’s ban on most abortions….
I will weblog in regards to the opinion when it comes out; for extra on the regulation, see this submit.