A Ninth Circuit panel indicated that three California police officers may have to stand trial over claims they endangered a woman’s life by failing to arrest her abusive boyfriend because he and his father were fellow police officers.
Read moreDomino’s Pizza must make its website and mobile app accessible to blind people using screen-reading software, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Monday tossed a Hmong woman’s proposed class action accusing Laos and several of its highest-ranking government officials of trying to exterminate Hmong people who fought in the Vietnam War as part of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s “secret army.”
Read moreMagnified by a 2016 case in which doctors removed an infant from life support over the parents’ objections, a fight over California’s longstanding standard on brain death sharpened Monday at the Ninth Circuit.
Read moreA Nevada coffee company must pay the children of late reggae giant Bob Marley nearly $2.5 million in damages for trademark infringement, a Ninth Circuit panel has ruled.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Monday signaled it will likely allow federal prosecutors to use a San Francisco man’s cellphone-location data to prosecute him for the drive-by slaying of his young sister’s pimp.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit agreed Wednesday to hold an en banc rehearing of claims by the Democratic National Committee that the Arizona secretary of state and Republican Party suppress minority voting.
Read moreA divided en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday struck down a fee award of more than $400,000 for the pro bono lawyers who won their Malaysian client’s removal from the federal government’s no-fly list, an amount the attorneys called a “pittance.”
Read moreThe question of whether the en banc Ninth Circuit should take a new look a California school district’s appeal over its policy of beginning school board meetings with prayer ended with a no vote Wednesday. But the decision drew a sharp rebuke from several judges who said the appellate panel’s finding runs contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreIn a 5-4 decision Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay a federal judge’s order blocking the Trump administration’s ban on asylum for people who entered the United States outside an official port of entry.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld dismissal of a false advertising class action against the makers of the video game “Grand Theft Auto V,” agreeing buyers didn’t suffer serious injury from having to wait two weeks after purchase to play the online version.
Read moreChildren suing the United States for failing to address climate change asked the Ninth Circuit to lift the stay in their case because “with every passing day, through defendants’ ongoing systemic actions in creating, perpetuating, and promoting a national fossil fuel energy system, defendants continue to destabilize the climate system.”
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part a civil rights class action alleging cruel and unusual punishment in Arizona prisons through violations of a settlement intended to address inadequate health care.
Read moreA divided Ninth Circuit on Thursday partly lifted a nationwide injunction barring enforcement of the Trump administration’s interim rules expanding employer exemptions for contraception coverage on religious and moral grounds, limiting it to just five states.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Monday seemed poised to lift a court order blocking an anti-abortion activist’s access to public information about people associated with a University of Washington fetal-tissue research lab.
Read moreThere’s nothing unfair about making children represent themselves in immigration court, a Justice Department lawyer told an en banc Ninth Circuit panel Monday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Friday reviewed a Montana law prohibiting public disclosure of ethics complaints filed against government officials until after they have been decided, inserting itself into the middle of a caustic political rivalry between a Montana House Republican and the state’s Democratic governor.
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