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Nature of Suit Code: 950
Nature of Suit: Constitutionality of State Statutes
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Constitutionality of State Statute(s)

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[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING CONSENT 

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE AMICI BRIEF; 

Case No. 2:19-cv-2142-WBS-EFB

A. Marisa Chun (SBN 160351)

CROWELL & MORING LLP

3 Embarcadero Center, 26th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: 415.986.2800

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MChun@crowell.com

Harold Hongju Koh (pro hac vice pending)

YALE LAW SCHOOL 

PETER GRUBER RULE OF LAW CLINIC 

P.O. Box 208215 

New Haven, CT 06520

Telephone: 203.432.4932 

harold.koh@ylsclinics.org

Attorneys for Amici Curiae 

Former U.S. Diplomats and Government Officials

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

v.

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA; GAVIN 

C. NEWSOM, in his official capacity as 

Governor of the State of California; THE 

CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES 

BOARD; MARY D. NICHOLS, in her 

official capacity as Chair of the California 

Air Resources Board and as Vice Chair and 

board member of the Western Climate 

Initiative, Inc.; JARED BLUMENFELD, in 

his official capacity as Secretary for 

Environmental Protection and as a board 

member of the Western Climate Initiative, 

Inc.; KIP LIPPER, in his official capacity 

as a board member of the Western Climate 

Initiative, Inc., and RICHARD BLOOM, in 

his official capacity as a board member of 

the Western Climate Initiative, Inc.,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:19-cv-02142-WBS-EFB

ORDER GRANTING CONSENT MOTION 

FOR LEAVE TO FILE BRIEF OF AMICI 

CURIAE FORMER U.S. DIPLOMATS AND 

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING CONSENT 

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE AMICI BRIEF; 

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The Court has reviewed and considered the timely consent motion of the Former United 

States Diplomats and Government Officials (Susan Biniaz, Antony Blinken, Carol M. Browner,

William J. Burns, Stuart Eizenstat, Avril D. Haines, John F. Kerry, Gina McCarthy, Jonathan 

Pershing, John Podesta, Susan E. Rice, Wendy R. Sherman and Todd D. Stern) for leave to file a 

brief as amici curiae. The motion is GRANTED, and the proposed amici curiae brief attached to 

said motion is deemed filed.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 19, 2020

SFACTIVE-905512398.3

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