Judge Yeatts agreed with nearly all of Attorney General Herring’s arguments for the law’s constitutionality. He found that the act was “facially valid,” “facially constitutional,” “valid based on historical justifications,” that it “does not violate Article IV, § 12 of the Virginia Constitution,” that “the Act does not violate the non-delegation doctrine,” and that “the rest of the plaintiffs’ concerns do not presently justify review.”