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,

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.

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,

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