The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dealt another loss to Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, the Arizona Republic reported this week.
The decision came in…
Sep 17, 2015 2:13 PM CDT
It’s been eight years since Stephanie Lenz posted the video of her infant son dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” onto YouTube that started her long-running conflict with Universal…
Sep 14, 2015 5:20 PM CDT
Convicted two years ago in a $52 million mortgage-fraud scheme, a New Orleans lawyer won a reversal of his conviction in July from a federal appeals court.
Now David Mark…
Sep 14, 2015 2:30 PM CDT
A federal appeals court Thursday revived a man’s disability claim against the University of Idaho concerning his treatment as a law student there.
The trial court should not have summarily…
Sep 11, 2015 1:38 PM CDT
An anti-Muslim group isn’t entitled to a preliminary injunction that would allow it to post its terrorist-reward ads on buses in the Seattle area, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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Aug 14, 2015 5:45 AM CDT
Bringing to a close the largest known public corruption case in Southern Nevada, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former construction company boss portrayed by prosecutors as its mastermind…
Aug 7, 2015 11:37 AM CDT
A California lawyer apparently was not daunted by a contempt order issued Tuesday by a federal appeals court panel.
Responding to 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals findings that he…
Aug 6, 2015 2:05 PM CDT
More than 20 years ago, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski realized his clerks had a troubling gap in their education: They hadn't seen
12 Angry Men.…
Aug 1, 2015 7:20 AM CDT
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Sovereign immunity protects the U.S. government from being held liable for a mountain goat’s fatal attack on an Olympic National Park visitor, a divided federal appeals court has ruled.
The…
Jul 29, 2015 1:18 PM CDT
A longtime informant has sued the federal government, contending that he was repeatedly put in danger because the Department of Homeland Security fired the agent for whom he worked but…
Jul 22, 2015 12:30 PM CDT
A 70-year-old transgender woman stole nearly $250,000 in federal disability benefits by applying for them as a man while working simultaneously as a woman during much of the same period…
Jul 21, 2015 2:10 PM CDT
What can you do to get through federal judicial appointment hearings? Try answering questions with baseball metaphors, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski tells Concurring Opinions.
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Jul 20, 2015 12:11 PM CDT
Old DNA samples that were too small for testing under old techniques can be examined using new tests, even though a three-year limit has passed, a federal appeals court has…
Jul 15, 2015 12:15 PM CDT
After a federal district court’s ruling last year that a ban on paying college athletes for using their names and images violates antitrust law, a magistrate judge has awarded nearly…
Jul 14, 2015 3:00 PM CDT
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At one point, police in Vallejo, California, suggested that a 29-year-old woman’s claim of being kidnapped in March from her boyfriend’s home and held for ransom was a hoax, and…
Jul 14, 2015 1:44 PM CDT