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This week, the Ninth Circuit closely guarded its own jurisdiction while putting government litigants on the back foot. Read on to find out why county jailors’ qualified immunity appeal was dismissed, and how the Court handled a district court’s never-before-seen-in-the-Ninth Circuit order denying the …›
En banc proceedings are a central feature of the Ninth Circuit, which regularly revisits its panel decisions. Ninth Circuit en bancs come with a special twist: the uncertainty of which judges will hear the case. Given the Court’s size—currently 29 active judges—having all eligible …›
This week, the Ninth Circuit decided cases involving Ashley Judd’s lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, allegedly deceptive prescription pet food, and the interaction between the Class Action Fairness Act and the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act. Naturally, here at Left Coast Appeals, we focus on the latter …›
This week, we highlight two decisions revisiting (largely) settled principles of civil procedure and constitutional law. In the first, the Court reaffirmed its recent decision holding that a district court generally need not conduct a choice-of-law analysis before certifying a class for settlement. In …›
This week, the Ninth Circuit weighs in on the hot topic of nationwide injunctions and resolves a novel jurisdictional question in a case involving two staples of American life: Harley-Davidson motorcycles and class-action lawsuits. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO v. BARR The Ninth Circuit rejected …›
This week at This Week, we highlight the Ninth Circuit’s decision holding that an Oregon tax unlawfully discriminated against railroads, along with the Court’s opinion examining the strict limits on the appellate jurisdiction over orders remanding to state courts (and further cementing a circuit …›
The big news at the Ninth Circuit this week was the Court’s pair of decisions holding that the federal government could not use Department of Defense funds to construct the border wall. Here at This Week, we focus on two other decisions that may …›
With 29 authorized judgeships, the Ninth Circuit is already significantly larger than any other court of appeals. It could grow even bigger soon under a proposal picking up steam in Washington. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Judge Brian Miller made the …›
This week, the first of the decisions on which we focus has garnered the most public attention. That’s little surprise: the Ninth Circuit’s decision striking down a California statute prohibiting the publication of age-related information involves an attention-grabbing trifecta of issues—the First Amendment, …›
This week, the Ninth Circuit (quite reasonably) relied on the state courts to resolve a number of open legal questions, certifying two questions to state high courts and issuing an en banc opinion based on the Montana Supreme Court’s resolution of a third. Here, …›