Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals News

Except that the court did no such thing. Not even close. In fact, closer to the opposite.

Arizona voters are legally entitled to deny bail to some people who are in this country illegally, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The conviction of a former Alaska prosecutor on wire fraud charges is no longer valid, a federal appeals court has determined.

Soon, the Supreme Court will hand down hotly anticipated verdicts on two cases related to gay marriage: a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples legally married in their states, and a challenge to California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in that state based on a ... (more)

James Hazlehurst wrote an article published in The Daily Journal on June 12, 2013, that discussed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Harris v.

One of our most important rights as Americans is the freedom to express ourselves.

Jurors found a Glendale man guilty of murder for a second time on Monday after he appealed his original conviction for stabbing his girlfriend to death.

An appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that dismissed a challenge to an Arizona law that denies bail to people who aren't in the country legally and are charged with murder, sexual assault and other serious felonies.

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In Hinojos v. Kohl's Corp. , ___ F.3d ___ , the plaintiff's UCL and CLRA action challenged Kohl's practice of claiming that its prices are discounted off a "regular" or "original" price.

A law firm accused of shaking down Internet porn consumers by threatening to expose their identities is kicking up a storm at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The murder of Marine Colonel James E. Sabow and other Marines whose deaths are linked to the use of El Toro assets during the 1980s and 1990s to import South American cocaine into the U.S and to export weapons to the Contra Rebel faction of Nicaragua.

A police officer keeps watch outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 17, 2013.

The state Department of Education violated the law by holding a meeting to change an autistic Maui student's educational plan without involving his parents, a federal appeals court panel ruled.

Federal agents appeared to be reviving the hunt for the remains of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on Monday as they searched a field in suburban Detroit.

The Supreme Court says states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.

Several thousand gay rights supporters gathered around the state Capitol on Saturday, taking part in the 29th annual Sacramento Pride parade and festival on Capitol Mall.

Over the last year, the national landscape has changed -- some might say dramatically -- when it comes to same-sex marriage.

What makes a marriage? Is it a relationship between a man and a woman or between two people, regardless of gender, who have committed their lives to each other? Later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to render decisions on the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8. DOMA, passed in 1996 by Congress, defines ... (more)

The state Department of Education violated the rights of an autistic Maui student by deciding to have him change schools at a meeting his parents could not attend due to illness, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.