The en banc Ninth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a federal judge’s dismissal of consolidated labor violation lawsuits filed by servers and bartenders who said employers underpaid them for non-tipped tasks such as cleaning toilets and maintaining soft drink dispensers.
Read moreAn anti-abortion crusader’s lawyer on Friday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a nearly $200,000 contempt fine, accusing a federal judge of bias and painting the fine as an unfair criminal penalty imposed on her client.
Read moreA Canadian mining company must pay the $8 million it cost the Confederated Tribes of Colville to dig up evidence showing the company dumped toxic wastewater into the Canadian headwaters of the Columbia River, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.
Read moreThe Senate Judiciary Committee approved 11 judicial nominees on Thursday, including one to the Ninth Circuit and one to the Second Circuit.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Rejecting the Democratic Party’s claim that Arizona voting laws suppress minority voters, the Ninth Circuit on
Read moreFederal law allows Oregon’s ban on suction dredge gold mining in rivers where salmon spawn, according to a Ninth Circuit ruling on Wednesday against a group of miners who challenged the restrictions.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday appealing the dismissal of a case that accused the Arizona Department of Corrections of concealing information about the state’s executions.
Read moreA conservative political advocacy group funded by the billionaire Koch brothers must reveal the names of its largest donors to the California attorney general, three judges of the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA blogger challenging Washington state’s cyberstalking law – which prohibits actions that harass, intimidate, torment or embarrass people – can pursue his claims in federal court, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Friday revived claims brought by a Marriott worker whose union negotiated a waiver to a San Jose, California, ordinance mandating a $10 minimum wage.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit will not rehear a case over the disputed ownership of monkey selfies, closing the book on a three-year legal saga that sought to establish new rights for animals to own works of arts.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal Wednesday of a class action accusing SeaWorld of failing to disclose how it treats orcas.The unpublished opinion says SeaWorld had no duty to reveal information that did not “relate to the central functionality of the product.”
Read moreMonsanto products factored in two appeals heard Wednesday by a Ninth Circuit panel reviewing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a dicamba-based herbicide and possible government complicity in PCB contamination of state waterways.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed the conviction Monday of a former Alaska prosecutor who took $52 million from an elderly widow’s trust and was sentenced to over 13 years in prison.
Read moreIn DuPont’s trade secrets beef with several Chinese iron and steel companies, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that U.S. government agents’ service of criminal summonses on the companies’ U.S. lawyers gave the companies sufficient notice of the actions to satisfy federal law.
Read moreCBS may yet sing the blues, after the Ninth Circuit on Monday revived a copyright lawsuit against the radio giant over its broadcast of classic songs by Al Green, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, the Turtles and many more without a license.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded summary judgment for Marcella Winn, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who has asserted immunity against claims that she sent a woman to prison for 17 years by suppressing evidence.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld dismissal of retaliation claims brought against Sony Pictures Television by actress Victoria Rowell, finding the studio’s refusal to rehire her on “The Young and the Restless” was because there were no parts for her to play, not because she’d pushed for more minority inclusion on the show.
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