Chris Taylor v. John Chiang

OPINION

HUCK, Senior District Judge:

I. INTRODUCTION

This putative class action has a long and tortuous history in this Court. Presumably this opinion will be known as Taylor V. 1 Appellants challenge the constitutionality of California’s Unclaimed Property Law (“UPL”), which provides for the conditional transfer of unclaimed property to the State of California. 2 While this Court has previously held the UPL facially constitutional, see Taylor III, 525 F.3d at 1289, the instant suit challenges the California State Controller Betty Yee’s (“the Controller”) application of the statute. 3 Appellants…