On July 14, 2026, U.S. District Judge William Q. Hayes granted a motion for preliminary injunction barring California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the State of California from enforcing SB 343, California’s “Truth in Recycling” law, while the litigation proceeds. The order is significant not merely because it pauses a major labeling regime shortly before its October 2026 compliance date, but because the Court found that the challengers are likely to prevail on both of their core constitutional theories: that key provisions of SB 343 are unconstitutionally vague under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause, and that the statute impermissibly restricts commercial speech under the First Amendment.