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Welcome to Left Coast Appeals

At Left Coast Appeals, we provide insights into all things Ninth Circuit. Check out our Ninth Circuit Statistics page, which offers an empirical window into the Court’s workings. At our En Banc Tracker, we monitor the Court’s busy en banc proceedings. And at This Week at the Ninth, we highlight key recent decisions.

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July 09, 2020 - This Week at the Ninth
This Week at The Ninth: Railroad Discrimination and Remand Review
By: James R. Sigel
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
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July 02, 2020 - This Week at the Ninth
This Week at The Ninth: The FDCPA and Trade Dress
By: James R. Sigel
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
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July 01, 2020 - Ninth Circuit Insights
Expanding The Ninth? The Plan to Add Five More Judges
By: Joseph R. Palmore
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
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June 25, 2020 - This Week at the Ninth
This Week at The Ninth: IMDB, Article III, and the Mailbox Rule
By: James R. Sigel and Seth W. Lloyd
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, a
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June 18, 2020 - This Week at the Ninth
This Week at The Ninth: Erie And Exculpation
By: James R. Sigel
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,
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June 11, 2020 - This Week at the Ninth
This Week at The Ninth: Farriers’ Rights and Securities Fraud
By: James R. Sigel
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.
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June 04, 2020 - This Week at the Ninth
This Week at The Ninth: The TCPA, Preemption, and Copyright Registration
By: James R. Sigel
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,
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May 25, 2020 - This Week at the Ninth
This Week at The Ninth: Removal, Choice of Law, and International Comity
By: James R. Sigel
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, cementing
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May 13, 2020 - Announcements
Welcome to Left Coast Appeals
At Left Coast Appeals, we provide insights into all things Ninth Circuit. Check out our Ninth Circuit Statistics page, which offers an empirical window into the Court’s workings. At our En Banc Tracker , we monitor the Court’s busy en banc proceedings. And at
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Welcome to Left Coast Appeals

This Week at The Ninth: Railroad Discrimination and Remand Review

By: James R. Sigel

This Week at The Ninth: The FDCPA and Trade Dress

By: James R. Sigel

Expanding The Ninth? The Plan to Add Five More Judges

By: Joseph R. Palmore

This Week at The Ninth: IMDB, Article III, and the Mailbox Rule

By: James R. Sigel and Seth W. Lloyd

This Week at The Ninth: Erie And Exculpation

By: James R. Sigel

This Week at The Ninth: Farriers’ Rights and Securities Fraud

By: James R. Sigel

This Week at The Ninth: The TCPA, Preemption, and Copyright Registration

By: James R. Sigel

This Week at The Ninth: Removal, Choice of Law, and International Comity

By: James R. Sigel

Welcome to Left Coast Appeals