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This Week at the Ninth: Old Debts and Flight Attendants
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
This Week at the Ninth: SLUSA and U.S. Waters
This week, we take a look at two Ninth Circuit decisions wrestling with issues of statutory interpretation. In the first, the Court considered the Securities L
This Week at the Ninth: Arbitration and Accommodation
This week, we take a look at one Ninth Circuit decision exploring the enforceability of an arbitration clause precluding a party from acting as a “private attor
This Week at the Ninth: Biomaterials and Unclean Hands
This week, we take a look at the Ninth Circuit’s decisions construing the Biomaterials Access Assurance Act’s immunity for “biomaterials suppliers” and addressi
This Week at the Ninth: Per Diems and Wages
This week, we take a look at the Court’s decision attempting to navigate the fine line between employer payments that reimburse employees for expenses—and thus
This Week at the Ninth: Floral Prints and Janitors
This week, we take a look at one Ninth Circuit decision addressing how to assess damages among multiple copyright infringers, and another examining the implicat
This Week at the Ninth: The FTC (Always) Wins
This week, a divided Ninth Circuit panel holds (with some apparent reluctance) that constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cannot be br
MoFo Perspectives Podcast: New Solicitor General, New Positions?
In this latest MoFo Perspectives podcast, MoFo appellate co-chairs Deanne Maynard and Joe Palmore speak on why the Biden Administration might change the governm
This Week in the Ninth: Rest Breaks and Workweeks
This week, we take a look at two Ninth Circuit decisions considering agencies’ interpretations of the federal laws governing the employment relationship. In th
This Week at the Ninth: Habeas and Hair Loss
This week, the Ninth Circuit declines to extend a recent Supreme Court decision on retaliatory arrest to the immigration bond revocation context, and resolves a