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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, …›
This week, we highlight a decision that examines the First Amendment implications of a California statute regulating a horseshoeing school, and another that assesses the plausibility of a securities-fraud complaint alleging that the defendants promoted a medical device they knew the FDA would reject. PACIFIC …›
This week, we focus on decisions interpreting the dreaded TCPA to authorize an 11-year-old boy’s substantial recovery against the bank that had mistakenly auto-dialed him, reading the Clean Air Act to allow certain state-law claims related to Volkswagen’s alleged tampering with emission control devices, …›
This week, we focus on a set of Ninth Circuit decisions that delve into the procedural doctrines that may prevent state-law claims from being heard in federal court. In first two decisions, the Ninth Circuit explored nearly every imaginable aspect of removal jurisdiction, …›