Mealey's (January 18, 2023, 3:11 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In an appeal of a California federal judge’s dismissal as moot of the challenge of would-be protesters to California’s COVID-related restriction on permits for protesting on the grounds of the state capitol, the clerk of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals filed an order granting the protestors’ unopposed motion to stay the appellate proceedings pending the U.S. Supreme Court’s disposition of Brach v. Newsom, which involves California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order shutting down public schools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic....