This week, the Ninth Circuit decided cases involving Ashley Judd’s lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, allegedly deceptive prescription pet food, and the interact

This week, we highlight two decisions revisiting (largely) settled principles of civil procedure and constitutional law. In the first, the Court reaffirmed its

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 o

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

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 c

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 d

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 c

This week, we highlight a decision that examines the First Amendment implications of a California statute regulating a horseshoeing school, and another that ass

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-

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 c