Left Coast Appeals

June 25, 2020 - This Week at the Ninth
This Week at The Ninth: IMDB, Article III, and the Mailbox Rule
By: James R. Sigel, Seth W. Lloyd and Samuel Benjamin Goldstein
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 and Lena H. Hughes
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 and Lena H. Hughes
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 and Lena H. Hughes
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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