Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals News

Our Environmental Protection Agency just lost a court battle in San Francisco that looks to have an impact on our Great Lakes and Wisconsin waters.

Billy Frank Gilley Jr.'s defense team believes a jury should determine whether he was fairly handed three consecutive life sentences for the 1984 murders of his parents and younger sister at their home on Ross ...

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a First Amendment challenge to a Florida law that says students must get a parent's permission to get out of a daily classroom recitation of the Pledge of ...

The "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case isn't quite over. Juneau attorney Doug Mertz told the Juneau Empire that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the case in September.

Dealing a setback to the shipping industry, the decision follows a 2005 lower court ruling that the EPA had illegally exempted ship discharges from Clean Water Act requirements.

BILLINGS - A federal appeals court has affirmed a Montana regulation that bans non-Indians from big game hunting within Native American reservations, even if the land is privately owned.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a ruling ordering the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the water discharged from ships often carrying invasive species.

A popular Seattle street performer who earlier this year lost a federal appeal on a challenge to regulations at Seattle Center has won another review of the case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Today the Ninth Circuit granted habeas relief based on a Batson claim. Green v. LaMarqu e, No.

The future of the Sand Creek Byway may be in jeopardy after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction Wednesday that halts construction on the polarizing project.

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An Elyria man was convicted Friday of sexual battery for forcing himself on a woman during a date in 2005.

Pharmacist Terry Kamrin fills prescription orders at Bacon-East Pharmacy in Concord, Calif., on Friday, July 18, 2008.

A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts in the fall.

GRANGEVILLE, Idaho - A man who killed two people in northern Idaho in 1983 has been sentenced to life in prison.

Nice day for me today. Woke up early and went surfing. Finishing a law review article this morning and over lunchtime.

LOS ANGELES : Barbie and Bratz dolls are sisters, a jury has decided in a major victory to Mattel Inc., the world's largest toymaker, in its copyright infringement lawsuit against rival MGA Entertainment Inc.

In Teamsters Local 445 Freight Division Pension Fund v. Dynex Capital Inc. , 2008 WL 2521676 , the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that in order to state a claim for securities fraud ...

VSP Vision Care hired former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr for an appeal to the Supreme Court over its tax-exempt status.