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This week, we take a look at an opinion examining whether the Department of Labor can be held to workers’ arbitration agreements, and a decision considering whe

This week, we take a close look at an appeal from the first jury trial in a flood of litigation alleging that a popular pesticide causes cancer. EDWIN HARDEMAN

This week, the Ninth Circuit resolves a novel preemption challenge to California’s CalSavers retirement scheme, and revisits a well-tread preemption question on

This week, we examine a pair of Ninth Circuit decisions addressing when opinions are materially false under securities law, and what a plaintiff must plead to e

This week, we take a look at a decision addressing the proper reading of “because” in federal discrimination statutes, and another addressing a California law p

This week, we take a look at one decision considering when California law requires application of California’s statute of limitations, and another reiterating t

This week, we take a look at two Ninth Circuit decisions tracing the limits of federal courts’ jurisdiction.  In the first, the Court addressed the Article III

This week, we look at one decision navigating the complicated jurisprudence governing review of remand orders (which one might think would be unreviewable), and

This week, the Ninth Circuit issued two decisions addressing interesting employment-discrimination issues.  In the first, a divided panel held that a university

This week, we take a look at two cases requiring the Ninth Circuit to navigate interlocking provisions of state and federal law.  In the first case, the Court a