9th Circuit (incl. bankruptcy)

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, is the largest, with 29 judgeships presently hearing cases on the Bench. The Circuit was created out of the Evarts Act of 1891, which initially established nine circuit court of appeals. Situated in the Western United States, the United States Court of Appeals is located in San Francisco, CA, at the James R. Browning US Court of Appeals Building.

There are nine states in the Ninth Circuit, and the District of Guam and District of Northern Mariana Islands also fall into the District’s jurisdiction. The Court of Appeals is in San Francisco. The District of Alaska courthouse is in Anchorage. The District of Arizona courthouse is in Phoenix. The Central District of California is in LA, Eastern District in Sacramento, and Southern District in San Diego, CA. The District of Guam courthouse is in Agana, and District of Hawaii is in Honolulu. The District of Idaho courthouse is in Boise, and District of Montana courthouse is in Billings. The District of Nevada courthouse is in Las Vegas, and District of Northern Mariana Islands courthouse in Saipan. The District of Oregon courthouse is in Portland. In the District of Washington, the Eastern District is in Spokane and Western District in Seattle, WA.

Being that it is the largest of the 13-circuits, the Ninth Circuit has 29 appointed judgeships currently sitting on the bench. This is alongside the 16 judges who are senior appointed judges. The Chief Judge for the circuit is Sidney Runyan Thomas, and the Circuit Justice is Anthony Kennedy, who is currently a US Supreme Court Justice.

Being the largest circuit in the country, several important decisions have come out of the Ninth Circuit. Mendez et. al v Westminister School District of Orange County, et al. (1947) is one of those cases. With the court sitting, en banc, the holding that Mexican-American students being placed in separate schools from those attended by a majority of the population was unconstitutional. In GlaxoSmithKline v Abbot Laboratories (2014) the court held that dismissal of jurors over sexual orientation would be barred in future cases.

The National Law Review covers similar cases as those detailed above and other types of case law. With Marijuana legalization being a hot-ticket item, several decisions have recently come in through the Ninth Circuit. Additionally, NLRB cases, employment rights, government elections and legislation, bankruptcy proceedings, and cases involving Major Corporations, have come through the Circuit. The National Law Review offers a wide range of cases in these categories, as well as news, appointments, and general information about the Ninth Circuit court system.

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Jul 9 2021	Ninth Circuit Holds AB-5 Applies to Motor Carrier Workers in California	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May 16 2019	Ninth Circuit Holds ABC Test Applies Retroactively	Vedder Price
Jul 29 2016	Ninth Circuit Holds Air Emissions Not Covered by CERCLA	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Feb 8 2017	Ninth Circuit Holds Alleged Violations of Aspirational Corporate Conduct Standards Insufficient to State Claim for Securities Fraud	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr 20 2020	Ninth Circuit Holds an “Objective Falsehood” Is Not Required for Violation of False Claims Act	Foley & Lardner LLP
Sep 13 2016	Ninth Circuit Holds Attorney’s Statement Was “Made”, Not Attributed	Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Feb 16 2023	Ninth Circuit Holds California Mandatory Employment Arbitration Ban Is Invalid	Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Oct 18 2022	Ninth Circuit Holds California’s ABC Test for Classifying Independent Contractors Does Not Violate First Amendment	Jackson Lewis P.C.
Feb 24 2023	Ninth Circuit Holds California’s Ban on Mandatory Arbitration Agreements is Preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act	Hunton Andrews Kurth
Aug 4 2023	Ninth Circuit Holds Clause Delegating Authority to Decide Arbitrability Is Valid Even If Broader Arbitration Agreement Is Not	Proskauer Rose LLP
Jan 12 2017	Ninth Circuit Holds Debtor Must Pay Default Interest Rate in Order to Cure Under Bankruptcy Plan	Murtha Cullina
Apr 13 2015	Ninth Circuit Holds District Courts Have Discretion in Accounting For CERCLA Private Party Settlement When Allocating to Non-Settling Parties	ArentFox Schiff LLP
Mar 16 2017	Ninth Circuit Holds Dodd-Frank Protects Internal Whistleblowing	Zuckerman Law
Jul 2 2019	Ninth Circuit Holds FAA Does Not Preempt California’s McGill Rule	Ballard Spahr LLP
May 12 2014	Ninth Circuit Holds Facebook IDs and URLS Not "Content" under ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act)	Covington & Burling LLP
Nov 26 2022	Ninth Circuit Holds Foreign Trademark Defendants Can Be Served through USPTO	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun 4 2020	Ninth Circuit Holds in Wrong Number TCPA Case That “Called Party” Does Not Mean “Intended Recipient”	Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Apr 20 2018	Ninth Circuit Holds National Park Service Has the Authority to Regulate Navigable Waters in Alaska’s National Parks and Prohibit the Use of Hovercraft (Again)	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct 1 2015	Ninth Circuit Holds NCAA Subject To Antitrust Scrutiny, But Vacates Injunction Allowing Up To $5,000 Per Year Deferred Compensation To College Athletes	Jackson Lewis P.C.
Nov 14 2016	Ninth Circuit Holds One-Year Period in Sec. 727(a)(2) Not Subject to Equitable Tolling	Holland & Hart LLP
Apr 10 2018	Ninth Circuit Holds Prior Salary Cannot Justify Wage Differences	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr 28 2013	Ninth Circuit Holds Private Company Rules Preempt California Law	Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jul 21 2015	Ninth Circuit Holds Public Policy Prevents Attorney from Defending Client’s Fraud Claim Under the Unclean Hands Doctrine	Holland & Hart LLP
Jun 6 2013	Ninth Circuit Holds Securities Exchange Act Section 10(b) Violations Sufficient For Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Breach Of Duty Claims	Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Sep 14 2016	Ninth Circuit Holds SOX 304 Clawback Applies to Executives Not at Fault	Mintz
Aug 29 2017	Ninth Circuit Holds Spokeo Plaintiff Has Standing to Proceed on Claim Over Inaccurate Information	Covington & Burling LLP
Jun 2 2012	Ninth Circuit Holds Statistics Alone Can Establish Prima Facie Case of Age Discrimination in a RIF	ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jun 4 2021	Ninth Circuit Holds Tax Form is Substance	McDermott Will & Emery
Jan 23 2018	Ninth Circuit Holds That a Prohibition on Credit Card Surcharges Abridges Merchants’ Freedom of Speech in Violation of First Amendment	Foley & Lardner LLP
Sep 30 2013	Ninth Circuit Holds that a Properly Structured Voluntary Rental Program Offering Does Not Convert Hotel Condominium Units into Securities	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr 7 2015	Ninth Circuit Holds That ADA Is Applicable Only to “Actual, Physical Place”	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Dec 20 2011	Ninth Circuit Holds that an Employer Need Not Reasonably Accommodate an Employee Who Does Not Meet the Job's Minimum Requirements	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul 1 2020	Ninth Circuit Holds That California Consumers Can’t Avoid Federal Jury Trial by Abandoning Available Damages Claims	Faegre Drinker
Jul 6 2015	Ninth Circuit Holds That Confirmed and Substantially Consummated Bankruptcy Plan is Appealable to District Court	Holland & Hart LLP
Jun 5 2013	Ninth Circuit Holds That Debt Can Be Recharacterized as Equity	Katten
Oct 20 2015	Ninth Circuit Holds That Debtor May Recover Attorneys' Fees Incurred Prosecuting Action for Damages Relating to Violation of Automatic Stay	Holland & Hart LLP
Oct 27 2016	Ninth Circuit Holds That Enforcing A Security Interest Is Not Necessarily Debt Collection	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan 14 2019	Ninth Circuit Holds that Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Govern How to Calculate the FAA’s Three-Month Filing Deadline to Seek Vacatur of an Arbitration Award	Carlton Fields
May 13 2013	Ninth Circuit Holds that Federal Securities Laws Preempt California Labor Code's Ban on Forced Patronage at Brokerage Firms	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan 18 2017	Ninth Circuit Holds that Foreclosure Trustee is Not Subject to Fair Debt Collection Practices Act	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Nov 3 2022	Ninth Circuit Holds that Implied Preemption Bars State Law Claims Based on a Violation of the FDCA	Foley & Lardner LLP
Apr 9 2013	Ninth Circuit Holds that In-Use Utility Poles Not Subject to the Clean Water Act or the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act	ArentFox Schiff LLP
Sep 25 2018	Ninth Circuit Holds that Last-Known Addresses of Putative Class Members Are Insufficient To Satisfy CAFA Exceptions	Proskauer Rose LLP
Sep 5 2014	Ninth Circuit Holds That Loan Purchasers Are Victims Under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA)	Katten
Oct 27 2015	Ninth Circuit Holds That NCAA’s Amateurism Rules Violate Section 1 of the Sherman Act	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Sep 13 2019	Ninth Circuit Holds that OSHA Respiratory Protection Standard Requires Employers to Evaluate Potentially Harmful Atmospheres to Determine Whether Respirators are Required	Keller and Heckman LLP
Aug 25 2014	Ninth Circuit Holds that Railyard Emissions are Outside the Scope of Federal Regulation	ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jan 18 2011	Ninth Circuit Holds that Repayment for Training is Not an Illegal 'Kick-Back'	Williams Kastner
Jul 30 2010	Ninth Circuit Holds That Safe Harbor Provision Of The Reform Act Applies To Forward-Looking Statements Accompanied By Cautionary Language And Forward-Looking Statements Made Without Actual Knowledge Of Falsity	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug 19 2010	Ninth Circuit Holds That Scienter May Be Established Through An Objective Evaluation Of A Defendant's Deliberate Recklessness	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

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