A federal appeals court has given a green light to a civil rights suit by a man who spent several days in a Los Angeles jail after being mistakenly booked…
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced today that he is working with the state’s U.S. congressional delegation to push for legislation that would remove Arizona from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S.…
A federal appeals court not only vacated and reversed portions of a judgment in a high-profile Nevada grazing-rights case on Friday but booted the trial judge from the case on…
A federal appeals court has nixed the criminal conviction of an Idaho man who served in the U.S. Marine Corps but never earned medals he later wore, including the Purple…
A former lawyer serving time after a rare second-degree murder conviction in a dog-mauling case is hoping a federal appeals court will overturn her conviction in the death of a…
A federal appeals court has overturned a federal judge’s finding that “systemic delay and dysfunction” in California’s process of reviewing capital sentences had made the death penalty unconstitutionally arbitrary.
Colleagues who are worried about mental decline in federal judges in the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals can call a hotline to get advice on how to…
An en banc federal appeals court has ruled that U.S. Navy investigators violated federal law when they provided evidence in a civilian child pornography case, though the decision won’t benefit…
Arrested last year at his Denver law office, a Colorado attorney facing federal charges in connection with an alleged illegal marijuana operation says he shouldn’t be prosecuted.
Amazon.com doesn’t infringe trademark rights when it displays competing brands of wristwatches in response to a query for a brand it doesn’t carry, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A series of 26 poses, which yogi Bikram Choudhury claims to have created and refers to as “the sequence,” is an “unprotectable idea” which cannot be copyrighted, the San Francisco-based…
A federal appeals court has reversed an injunction that allowed schools to pay college athletes up to $5,000 per year in deferred compensation, saying the lower court decision was based…