The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for a law firm accused of conspiring with a private judge who failed to disclose multiple concurrent retentions, but a concurrence warned that private judging creates growing ethical risks that state courts should address.
The Ninth Circuit affirms a Central District of California grant of summary judgment to the Secretary of the Air Force on a federal civilian employee’s discrimination and hostile work environment claims, restating the demanding ‘specific and substantial’ pretext standard on circums
The Ninth Circuit denied mandamus in the Super Micro Computer securities case and clarified that the standard for rebutting a presumptive lead plaintiff’s adequacy under the PSLRA is preponderance of the evidence, not the lower ‘genuine and serious doubt’ threshold.
The Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee who fails to preserve estate assets is not shielded by quasi-judicial immunity because property-management duties are administrative, not adjudicative.
The Ninth Circuit held that “first to market” advertising claims are not actionable as false advertising under the Lanham Act, ruling that such claims concern the origin of an idea rather than observable product characteristics.
The Ninth Circuit publishes that the state-created danger doctrine reaches only bodily-integrity harm, not lost profits — but reverses dismissal of state-law nuisance claims to let businesses pursue equitable tolling under American Pipe.
The Ninth Circuit denies en banc rehearing in a Nevada death-penalty habeas case, leaving in place a panel decision allowing the petitioner to invoke Martinez v. Ryan to revive long-defaulted trial-ineffective-assistance claims, over a forceful dissent from nine judges.
The Ninth Circuit reverses a federal habeas grant in a California death-penalty case, holding that under AEDPA’s doubly deferential standard the California Supreme Court reasonably rejected the petitioner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims, including those based on cumulative pre
The Ninth Circuit holds that the NVRA’s public inspection provision requires states to disclose records about their voter list maintenance activities but not the underlying statewide voter rolls themselves, affirming dismissal of an election-integrity nonprofit’s NVRA suit against Hawaii
The Ninth Circuit grants a stay pending appeal of an Arizona district court injunction that had struck the word ‘operation’ from the state’s birth-certificate-amendment statute, leaving Arizona’s surgical-verification requirement in place while the merits appeal proceeds.