The fight to revive a lawsuit over how California portrays Hinduism in public school lessons largely hinges on whether state educational standards are policies — which can be reviewed by courts — or curriculum, which cannot be.
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The lingering effects of school segregation, which largely ended in Arizona in the 1950s, still echo through the courts more than four decades after a Hispanic mother claimed Tucson’s school district was “tri-ethnic,” offering a very different experience for Black, Hispanic and white students.
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The Ninth Circuit on Monday scaled back a nationwide injunction that blocks the Trump administration from cutting off grants to sanctuary jurisdictions, finding it should only apply to California.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit Friday considered whether the Trump administration’s asylum ban could apply to those “metered” at ports of entry and waiting their turn to enter the United States when the ban went into effect last year, a decision which could determine whether an estimated 26,000 people will get their day in Immigration Court.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of First Amendment and Equal Protection claims against University of California officials brought by a woman whose plans to attend a speech by far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley were thwarted by protests. The woman’s battery claim against one of the protesters, however, was improperly dismissed.
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Drilling can proceed in a sensitive Alaskan reserve without an update to the government’s 2012 assessment of whether the oil and gas development would speed up climate change, and despite the fact that the assessment was completed four years before the oil at issue was discovered, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
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The Ninth Circuit upheld protections for grizzly bears in the area of Yellowstone National Park Wednesday, staving off plans for trophy hunts in parts of Wyoming and Idaho.
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A Jewish family asked the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to revive their legal fight to retrieve an impressionist work by Camille Pissarro stolen by Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Refugees don’t have to be denied asylum in Mexico before applying in the United States, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, tossing aside a Trump administration rule.
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The Ninth Circuit on Friday refused to reconsider a decision that will allow four men who spent 18 years in prison for a murder they didn’t commit to sue the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, for malicious prosecution.
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President Donald Trump illegally circumvented Congress’ “power of the purse” by transferring $2.5 billion in Department of Defense funds to construct portions of the border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico, the Ninth Circuit found Friday in a pair of rulings.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of Tenth Amendment and Fourth Amendment claims brought by a woman who was evicted from subsidized housing for using medical marijuana. The woman, who claimed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development improperly applied the Controlled Substances Act, failed to exhaust her administrative remedies.
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Three Ninth Circuit judges revived a copyright lawsuit claiming Oscar-winning film “The Shape of Water” plagiarized a Pulitzer prize-winning writer’s play, finding similarities between the works too great to warrant an outright dismissal.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed a ruling in favor of ranch owners, finding they are the sole owners of dinosaur fossils discovered on their property. The Montana Supreme Court answered a certified question concluding that dinosaur fossils were not a “mineral” and belonged to the surface estate, and that decision requires a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit reversed a ruling that had been granted in favor of the City of Hayward, California, and a police officer sued for excessive force by the brother of a car passenger who was shot to death. The officer is not entitled to qualified immunity for shooting at a person in a fleeing vehicle who did not “pose a danger to them or the public.”
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