Foreshadowing a potential win for the Trump administration’s deregulation agenda, a Ninth Circuit judge on Wednesday rejected arguments that the Energy Department intentionally relinquished its power to hold back stricter efficiency standards.
Read moreSuicide rates remain “sky-high” among California prisoners with mental illness, an attorney told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday, because the state refuses to adhere to its own timeframes for providing them with psychiatric care.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit considered Tuesday whether the Government of Guam denied due process to landowners whose ancestral land is currently being used as the island’s only public airport.
Read moreToddlers will continue representing themselves in immigration court in the wake of a Ninth Circuit’s refusal Tuesday to revisit dismissal of a class action that claimed kids should have court-appointed attorneys in immigration proceedings – a refusal that drew a blistering dissent from five circuit judges.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit hearing Thursday focused on what a San Diego detective knew as it considered whether officers who sought a search warrant to investigate a retired criminalist’s home after his DNA connected him to a cold case murder investigation should be entitled to qualified immunity.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration from ending a program that shields some 700,000 young immigrants from deportation.
Read moreIn the first decision of its new term, the Supreme Court agreed Tuesday with two Arizona firefighters who argued that a federal age-discrimination law applies to state and local government entities with less than 20 employees.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed Wednesday that an Arizona law prohibiting people other than family members from collecting other people’s early voting ballots is not unconstitutional.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel rebuked the County of San Diego Wednesday for taking a couple’s children away and subjecting them to invasive gynecological and rectal exams as part of a child abuse investigation.
Read moreOne of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday defended his record on legal issues related to Native American tribes, as the Senate Judiciary Committee held its second nominations hearing during the Senate’s recess ahead of the midterm elections.
Read moreTwo wolf advocacy groups lack standing to challenge a federal policy barring prosecution of people who kill endangered animals but are unaware the animal was endangered, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreNestle and Cargill must face claims they approved the use of child slaves on Ivory Coast plantations and bribed slave masters to get cheap cocoa, a panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit signaled Friday it will lift a nationwide preliminary injunction of federal rules to expand employer exemptions for contraception coverage on religious and moral grounds.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit refused Thursday to rehear en banc a challenge over the U.S. Import-Export Bank’s $4.8 billion funding of a natural gas project thought to threaten the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
Read moreArguing before a Ninth Circuit panel Thursday, a U.S. government lawyer defended an anti-terrorism program that critics say puts innocent Americans on a watch list just for being Muslim or engaging in innocuous activities like taking photos in public.
Read moreA jury should decide whether to hold McDonald’s liable for violating California’s wage and hour laws, an attorney for a class of employees told a three-judge Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday.
Read moreFrustrated with the slow pace of its appeal, the Trump administration on Wednesday threatened to ask the Supreme Court to review an injunction protecting some 700,000 young immigrants from deportation.
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The 9th Circuit sided with the Securities Exchange Commission in an action against Heart Tronics Inc. and attorney Mitchell Stein, who fraudulently inflated the company’s stock price while working as its outside counsel.
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