Litigation

The Ninth Circuit stays a Portland district court injunction barring federal officers from using tear gas to disperse demonstrators outside an ICE facility, holding that nearby apartment residents likely have no substantive-due-process right to be free from incidental chemical exposure.

The Ninth Circuit stays a sweeping district court injunction that had restricted federal officers’ use of non-lethal crowd-control munitions and ordered ICE agent uniforms redesigned, holding the underlying First Amendment retaliation theory unlikely to succeed and the relief overbroad and imp

The Ninth Circuit grants the United States an injunction pending appeal barring California from enforcing the No Vigilantes Act’s visible-identification requirement against federal officers, holding that the law likely violates the Supremacy Clause by directly regulating the federal government

Sitting en banc, the Ninth Circuit upholds the City of Oxnard’s voter-enacted per-candidate and aggregate campaign-contribution limits, holding the City sufficiently demonstrated an anti-corruption interest and that the limits are closely drawn to that interest under Randall v. Sorrell.

The Ninth Circuit holds that the IDEA’s two-year statute of limitations starts when parents know or should know that the school district has failed to assess their child and that the child’s education is inadequate, time-barring the family’s claims for special-education services re

The Ninth Circuit vacates an insider-trading conviction because the trial court failed to investigate a juror who said he was unsure of being impartial, instead asking the juror to monitor his own bias, in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury.