Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals News Archives

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.

A federal appeals court will reconsider its decision to let African-American homeowners sue Farmers Group Inc for racial discrimination based on alleged overcharges on property and casualty insurance policies.

The fierce fight over same-sex marriage is creating pressure to recognize a new free-speech right that could keep public records secret.

Federal appeals court judges are in Arizona to hear arguments at law schools at Arizona State University in Tempe and the University of Arizona in Tucson.

A judge suspended criminal proceedings Friday for the retrial of a former death row inmate whose conviction was overturned in the 1982 murder of two Riverside police officers.

REJECT MOTION: They say evidence against ex-legislator is overwhelming. Published: October 23rd, 2009 05:28 PM Last Modified: October 23rd, 2009 10:30 PM After months of backtracking in its prosecutions of the Alaska corruption cases, the Justice Department said Friday that former House Speaker Pete Kott received a proper trial in 2007 and his ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday barred the state from giving out the names of those who signed petitions for Referendum 71, a move that could keep identities of thousands of people secret for months as a heated legal fight runs its course.

Looks right. The speech is not anonymous. October 22, 2009, 6:31 pm Steve says: The question is whether the State that created the petition process in the first place is compelled by the Constitution to keep the names of signers secret even if it considers them part of a public record.

PHOENIX a ' A challenge to Arizona's controversial tax credits to help students go to private and parochial schools will have to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

School-choice supporters of a groundbreaking program providing tax breaks for donations for private school scholarships has been dealt another setback as a federal appeals court let stand a ruling that revives a constitutional challenge.

A federal appellate court ruled Tuesday that a Santa Monica man whose child rape conviction was overturned after he spent almost 14 years in prison cannot sue Long Beach police for allegedly fabricating evidence against him.

A federal appeals court has overturned a 26-year sentence for an Everett pimp. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday sent the case of Jerome Todd back to federal court in Seattle.

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that he can be held personally responsible for wrongfully detaining people as material witnesses after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A lawyer for minority advocacy groups says a federal court should stop Arizona from requiring people who register to vote by mail also submit documents to prove citizenship.

In a case that will have ramifications in counties across California, a federal judge has halted a slashing of the In-Home Supportive Service program which would have affected 130,000 disabled and elderly Californians starting Nov.

U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Alex R. Munson placed under advisement yesterday the renewed motion for release filed by former lieutenant governor Timothy P. Villagomez, James A. Santos, and Joaquina V. Santos.

Debra Jean Milke has been sitting on Arizona's death row for nearly 20 years, largely because a police detective said she confessed to plotting her 4-year-old son's murder.

A Thurston County judge told state elections officials Wednesday that they must not release signatures and addresses of the people who signed 11 statewide initiatives, at least until a federal court dispute is resolved in a similar case.

The nation's largest tobacco company agreed Thursday to drop its legal challenge to San Francisco's ban on tobacco sales in pharmacies.

Washington's secretary of state can release the names and addresses of people who signed petitions calling for a public vote on the state's expanded benefits for domestic partners, a federal appeals court said Thursday.

Supporters and foes of gay domestic partnerships await a federal ruling from a three-judge panel on whether petitions for Washington's Referendum 71 should be made public after initial arguments were made on Wednesday.

Blogroll Archives Other Information Posted on: October 12, 2009 9:30 AM, by Ed Brayton Let me spell out in a bit more detail why I don't think Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

ANNE CHADWICK WILLIAMS awilliams@sacbee.com Richard Finley, a Sacramento bookstore owner, is seeking compensation for time he says he wrongly spent in prison.

The father of a former Miss Oregon will stand trial for immigration fraud after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his case Monday.

A Supreme Court argument Wednesday over a cross within the Mojave National Preserve sparked a sharp dispute over whether the Latin cross stands as a symbol of all fallen soldiers, including Jews and Muslims.

Judge Richard Talman wrote this for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Nurre v. Whitehead: 'Once again we enter the legal labyrinth of a student's First Amendment right to free speech.

The Supreme Court broke down along ideological lines Wednesday in a contentious religion case, with conservative Justice Antonin Scalia calling "outrageous" the arguments that a cross built as a war memorial only honors Christian soldiers, while liberal justices doubted the government's effort to solve the issue by selling the cross and the ...

Saying the Schwarzenegger administration is thumbing its nose at three federal judges with a flawed plan to ease overpopulation of prisons, inmates' attorneys Thursday asked the judges to find the governor in contempt.

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An argument Wednesday about the fate of a cross in a remote part of the Mojave National Preserve in southeastern California largely avoided the most interesting question suggested by the case - whether the First Amendment's ban on the establishment of religion is violated when the government displays a cross as a war memorial.

In a case that could have sweeping impact on other state budget cuts, the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency motion filed by the Medicaid Defense Fund, representing seniors and persons with disabilities who are Medi-Cal recipients, to hear on October 22, a lawsuit - " Gray Panthers of San Francisco, et al.

Xilinx Inc.'s petition for a rehearing in its dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over dealings with a foreign subsidiary should be denied, the U.S. Justice Department argued in a legal brief filed Tuesday .

An attempt by former Washington Mutual Inc. employees to recoup their retirement account losses from JPMorgan Chase & Co., part of a complex tangle of litigation stemming from WaMu's collapse last year, has been dismissed.

An 18-year legal battle over the Special Commitment Center for sexual predators on McNeil Island has come to an end.

The cross, on an outcrop known as Sunrise Rock in the Mojave National Preserve, has been covered in plywood for the past several years following federal court rulings that it violates the First Amendment prohibition against government endorsement of religion.

In what has become a very closely watched tax case, programmable logic vendor Xilinx Inc.

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Attorney General John Kroger have sent letters urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue a legal strategy that supports the Clinton-era Roadless Rule to protect pristine wilderness areas.

The Supreme Court will consider whether portions of a law that makes it a crime to provide "material support or resources" to designated terrorist groups are unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a law barring material support to terrorist groups is unconstitutionally vague.

Death sure is different in the Ninth Circuit. Though I think the Ninth Circuit has generallyfailed to live up to it liberal reputation in much of its post- Blakely and post- Booker non-capital sentencing jurisprudence, the judges on the Ninth Circuit continue to find ways to reverse capital sentences as evidenced by two new rulings today.

California must offer tribal casinos licenses for 10,549 more slot machines next week because of a federal court ruling.

There's never a good day to be on death row in Arizona. Especially on your very last day there.

A Seattle judge ruled in favour of a man arguing that he has the right to sell secondhand software, in a case that had some people worried about an end to used-book and CD stores.

The Supreme Court plunged back into the legal fight over firefighters, test scores and accusations of racial discrimination on Wednesday, this time to decide when those who say they were victims of discrimination must file a lawsuit.

A federal appeals court has reinstated a nearly four-year-old lawsuit accusing a subsidiary of Barrick Gold Corp.