Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals News

Solicitor General Elena Kagan asked for an unprecedented reconsideration of an appeals court ruling that government agents illegally seized drug-testing samples and records of baseball players who allegedly tested positive for steroids in 2003.

Federal officials are asking for a rehearing of an appeals court decision that said the government illegally seized drug-testing samples and records of baseball players who allegedly tested positive for steroids.

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Does it bother you when you return to your car, perhaps after shopping, and someone has placed a leaflet under your windshield wiper? Do you respond by saying to yourself, "How neat is that, someone left a political flier on my car.

A federal judge on Wednesday reduced the prison sentence for a former Ukrainian prime minister convicted in the United States of corruption in his homeland.U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer cut Pavlo Lazarenko's nine-year sentence by 11 months.

Federal prosecutors on Friday said they would not appeal a judge's dismissal of a Missouri mother's convictions for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Yellowstone County should not be held responsible for the legal defense provided to a former Billings man who spent 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

For the second time in two days, a federal judge has ruled that the government can't refuse to authorize health coverage for the same-sex spouse of a court employee.

Seattle biotechnology firm Cell Therapeutics Inc. can pursue claims for nearly $23 million against a former consultant, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

A federal judge today ordered compensation for a Los Angeles couple denied spousal benefits by the federal government because they are gay men.

In other action, the Court reinstated the death penalty for Fernando Belmontes Jr., convicted in the '81 murder of a California woman The National Law Journal November 16, 2009 In brief comments at the opening of the Supreme Court's session Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.

Posting loss : The Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for the 2009 fiscal year, about $1 billion more than the previous year.

The state says Washington's Republican Party is deadbeat in repaying legal fees associated with a failed challenge to the Top 2 primary system.

The Supreme Court today for the third time reversed the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and restored a death sentence for a California murderer who bludgeoned and killed a young woman in 1981 to steal a stereo from her house.

After 25 years, Jackson Chambers Daniels is being retried for allegedly gunning down officers Dennis C. Doty and Philip N. Trust on May 13, 1982.

The lawsuit received some coverage , but the trial court's dismissal of the lawsuit received almost no coverage.

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A federal judge has been rebuked for his lax oversight of more than $30 million tied to the late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos.

John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death, but the sniper mastermind will never be held legally accountable for a killing in Tucson that police believe was a precursor to the sniper spree that left 10 people dead in the Washington, D.C., area.

Since 1981, more than 7,000 homicide cases have been filed. Only 30 death sentences have been handed down.