Employees at Apple retail stores should be paid for time spent having their personal bags checked by security when they want to leave the store, the California Supreme Court said Thursday.
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After a long, intense and spirited hearing in the Ninth Circuit on Thursday, a three-judge panel will decide whether the world’s leading chip manufacturer is illegally distorting the market or simply outfoxing the competition.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel agreed Wednesday there is no 14th Amendment privacy right to avoid having to use the same restroom as a transgender person – nor does having to do so amount to sexual harassment – and affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit brought by parents against an Oregon school district.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Tuesday granted a request by the Arizona attorney general to stay its mandate tossing two of the state’s ballot-handling processes as discriminatory, pending the state’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed a contempt sanction against Ocwen Loan Servicing in a case brought by debtors who claim they suffered severe emotional distress by receiving letters and phone calls from the company about the home they had abandoned to foreclosure before filing for bankruptcy. A bankruptcy court had concluded the company violated the debtors’ discharge injunction.
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The city of Oakland should not be allowed to sue Wells Fargo under the Fair Housing Act over lost property tax revenue from the foreclosures it attributes to the bank’s discriminatory mortgage lending practices, an attorney for the bank told the Ninth Circuit on Monday.
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Attorneys sparred Friday over oil and gas drilling in Alaska – whether the government ignored environmental consequences and if it should reevaluate projects in light of climate science released after the project was first evaluated in 2012.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is knowingly hiding some radio traffic recordings from the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire near Prescott, Arizona, instead telling a firefighter who sued to get the recordings that they were turned over to state investigators and made public shortly after the fire, the firefighter’s attorney told a Ninth Circuit panel Friday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Thursday reversed a federal jury’s 2018 decision and ordered it to rehear liability and damages claims in a case where it stopped short of awarding damages to a California city whose groundwater was polluted by a chemical company’s fertilizer.
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The Ninth Circuit waded into a thorny jurisdictional dispute Wednesday over whether federal or state law governs a spate of city and county lawsuits against oil and gas giants like BP and Chevron.
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Considering whether to travel back in time 50 years to resolve a trademark question not considered by a jury when it found San Diego Comic-Con’s mark is enforceable, a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday questioned whether the term “Comic Con” was generic when first used by the decades-old comic convention.
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Immigration officials struggled Tuesday to convince the Ninth Circuit to overturn an injunction requiring 30-day adjudication of work permits for asylum seekers, conceding mediation with representatives for a class of affected immigrants might instead be appropriate.
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An attorney for President Donald Trump told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday adult film star Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against the president was an attempt to silence him after he questioned her story of being threatened to keep quiet about an alleged affair between them.
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Amazon urged a Ninth Circuit panel on Monday to find its local delivery drivers must arbitrate their labor grievances, a decision that could force the court to define the boundaries of interstate commerce.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit refused to reverse a contempt order against the Arizona Department of Corrections for failing to improve a derelict prison health care system that caused needless pain and suffering and multiple inmate deaths.
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Two Arizona ballot-handling practices hamper the voting rights of minorities, and one state law was written to do just that, an en banc Ninth Circuit ruled Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by Democrats in the Republican-dominated state.
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