Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals News

Prosecutors have dismissed their case against a former Moncks Corner police officer who was accused of asking his fellow officers to help plant drugs and guns in his ex-girlfriend's vehicle in 2005, authorities said.

Share + Comments Nov 6, 2009 12:55 pm US/Pacific 1 of 1 The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights says the city's Board of Supervisors was intervening in church affairs when it passed the nonbinding resolution in 2006.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Santa Cruz City Council members did not violate a man's rights when they ordered him removed from a council meeting after he made a one-armed Nazi salute.

Conservatives on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rode to the rescue of one of their own on Thursday, finding that Judge Richard Tallman didn't botch a bizarre murder-for-hire case in Idaho.

Medford will rewrite a law banning panhandling rather than appealing a judge's order that found previous limits unconstitutional, the City Council decided today.

Concerns over jobs and the economy helped propel Republicans to sweep the gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia.

Judges with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals are considering whether a federal judge erred in dismissing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against Yellowstone County by a former Billings man who spent 15 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

The long road to the proverbial day in court just got longer for five men who claim they were "disappeared" and tortured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

The Obama administration will enter the politically tricky immigration arena, courtesy of the Supreme Court.

Reporting from Washington - The U.S. Supreme Court is considering, for the third time, the case of a California murderer who was sentenced to die in 1982 for the brutal killing of a young woman.

A federal appeals court has reinstated an age-discrimination suit filed by former Phoenix employees of an international firm.

California's three strikes law has imposed some very long sentences on some very dangerous people.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Northwest Airlines has the right to continue its pursuit to recover $10.6 million for damage to one of its plane that rolled down an embankment at McCarran International Airport in February 2002.

U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra has recused himself from deciding the furlough Friday lawsuits because he has been appointed to find a resolution to the issue.

California is America's incubator, the place where transforming trends in culture, clothing, commerce and -- unfortunately -- politics often begin.

A panel of federal judges gave the state energy commission a chance to establish water conservation standards for clothes washing machines.

PHOENIX a ' A federal appeals court reinstated a shareholder lawsuit against Scottsdale-based Matrixx Initiatives over what company officials knew about potential dangers from its popular Zicam cold remedy.

Alex Kozinski, the chief judge of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, won't be sanctioned for e-mailing crude jokes.

"Five men who allege they were tortured after a Boeing subsidiary delivered them to secret CIA interrogation sites will have to persuade a full panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that their case should go to trial despite administration claims that it involves state secrets.

A federal appeals court today decided to reconsider a prior ruling allowing a lawsuit to go forward against a San Jose company accused of participating in the CIA's so-called torture flights.