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This Week at The Ninth: Credit Reports and Public Unions
This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses the standards for liability under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and rebuffs a pre-enforcement First Amendment challenge t
This Week at The Ninth: Money, Money, Money, Money
This week the Court addresses the constitutionality of Oakland’s Uniform Residential Tenant Relocation Ordinance’s “relocation fee,” and the proper method for c
This Week at The Ninth: Disagreements on Display
This week, the Ninth Circuit parts ways with the Second Circuit on whether unnamed real defendants in interest can remove state cases to federal court and issue
This Week at the Ninth: Wait Until Next Time
This week, the Court addressed two questions of appellate jurisdiction, holding there is no right to immediate appellate review of a district court’s denial of
This Week at the Ninth: Arbitration Two Ways
This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses the ability of non-parties to invoke arbitration agreements, and refreshes its law on the applicability of Eleventh Amend
This Week at the Ninth: Delegation and Wildfires
This week, the Ninth Circuit resolves whether parties can delegate issues of contract formation to an arbitrator, and explains the bounds of federal courts’ jur
This Week at the Ninth: Tribal Disputes and Interstate Mushrooms
This week, the Ninth Circuit explores the limits of federal subject matter jurisdiction over intratribal governing disputes and addresses the scope of the Feder
This Week at the Ninth: Controlled Burns
This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses the United States’ immunity from suit for fire suppression efforts. ESQUIVEL v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The Court held t
This Week at The Ninth: Supplemental Jurisdiction and The Unruh Act
This week, the Court tackles the jurisdictional implications of California’s attempt to limit the abusive filing of Unruh Act claims with heightened procedural
This Week at the Ninth: Telescopes and Tax Returns
This week, the Ninth Circuit takes a close look at a sizable antitrust jury award, and explains what constitutes a tax “return” for purposes of bankruptcy law.