On Election Day 2026, a majority of the Ninth Circuit en banc court reinstated a panel order staying a district court’s temporary restraining order that had barred federal officials from demanding ballot sequestration and threatening election officials with prosecution.
The Southern District of California granted Zacarias Bourgouin’s habeas petition and ordered his immediate release under his preexisting parole conditions, holding that ICE violated due process by revoking his release and re-detaining him without notice, reasons, or an opportunity to be heard.
The district court accepted the magistrate judge’s findings, conclusions, and recommendations as set forth in its order, denied the habeas petition, and dismissed the case without prejudice because the petitioner’s removal order became final less than 90 days earlier, making his detentio
The Fifth District affirmed McKinzy’s convictions and sentence, holding that his violent attack on counsel, continuing threats, and refusal to attend supported his exclusion from the bifurcated prior-conviction trial and that the record did not show counsel conceded guilt over his objection.
The Court of Appeal denied Ducor Telephone Company’s petition for a writ of review challenging the Public Utilities Commission’s use of the original cost rather than fair market value methodology to value its rate base, holding the Commission acted within its discretion, committed no pre
The Sixth District affirmed Manuel Vasquez’s eight sexual-offense convictions but vacated his gang-participation strike finding and entire sentence because the prosecution’s records established only the fact of his 2009 conviction, not the underlying facts showing it satisfied section 18
The Eastern District of California adopted findings and recommendations in full, granted an immigration detainee’s habeas petition, and ordered his immediate release after finding his re-detention without notice or a pre-deprivation hearing violated due process.
The Fifth District Court of Appeal vacated Branden Ferguson’s sentences in two Kern County cases because the trial court imposed an upper term using aggravating factors on which Ferguson had not personally waived his jury-trial right, and the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
The First District Court of Appeal held that a trial court may reimpose upper terms at a section 1172.75 resentencing without new findings beyond a reasonable doubt when upper terms were originally imposed, but remanded for recalculation of custody credits.
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The Ninth Circuit held that firing the projectile at Johnson was unreasonable force under the Fourth Amendment. Johnson and nearby demonstrators were peaceful, the weapon could cause serious injury, and a generalized interest in controlling a crowd did not justify shooting someone who posed no immin
The Ninth Circuit denied relief where briefing waived key asylum issues and the record did not show official acquiescence or prejudicial interpretation errors.
The Ninth Circuit found unconstitutional excessive force in a foam-round shooting but granted the officer qualified immunity and certified a Bane Act question.
The Ninth Circuit held that AEDPA deference barred habeas relief because no Supreme Court case clearly prohibited the midtrial juror removal at issue.
Juvenile Sentence Allowing Release at 65 Was Not Life Without Parole.