Book: Anti-gay-marriage lawyer plans daughtera s gay wedding
Lead attorney for proponents of Proposition 8, Charles J. Cooper argues during a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Dec. 6, 2010, in San Francisco.
View ArticleProsecutors win appeal in 1989 son killing case
A retired detective will be forced to testify at the retrial of an Arizona mother charged with having her son killed in 1989 after he asserted his right against self-incrimination and refused take the...
View ArticleDrakes Bay Oyster Co. takes fight to U.S. Supreme Court
The Drakes Bay Oyster Co. filed a petition Monday to take its fight to stay open to the U.S. Supreme Court.
View ArticleMedia heavyweights join fight against removing 'Innocence of Muslims' from...
Cindy Lee Garcia, an actor in the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims who filed suit against Google.
View ArticleJudge upholds New York state gun law
The plaintiffs, a group of gun rights activists, argued [lohud news report] that the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act of 2013 [text] infringes upon rights granted by the state...
View ArticleSupervisors' interruptions didn't violate speech rights, court says
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also upheld a board rule barring "personal, impertinent, slanderous or profane remarks" at public meetings.
View ArticleGroup Plans Protest Over Cinco de Mayo American Flag Shirt Incident
San Francisco NBC affiliate KNTV reports a peaceful protest is planned on Cinco de Mayo holiday in front of the San Francisco Bay area's Four Live Oak High School.
View ArticleAbbVie urges U.S. court to avoid gay rights issue in HIV drug case
An Abbott Laboratories spinoff urged a federal appeals court to revisit a ruling in a case against GlaxoSmithKline Plc, but without disturbing landmark constitutional protections for gays and lesbians.
View ArticleAmerican flag T-shirt case: Republican congressmen join legal flap...
Several conservative groups and 20 Republican members of Congress have jumped into the legal fray over a South Bay high school's decision to order a group of students wearing American-flag...
View ArticleConviction for threats to city officials reversed
A federal appeals court panel has overturned the conviction of a man for threatening two top North Las Vegas officials after his car was repossessed.
View ArticleAgency Loses Fight to Reveal Whistle-Blowers
The Department of Labor need not identify hundreds of social workers who complained about an allegedly illegal overtime policy in Washington state, the 9th Circuit ruled Friday.
View ArticleEstrich: Senators at play in the schoolyard
With luck, Michelle Friedland , a highly qualified appointee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , will be confirmed when the Senate returns from its two-week recess on April...
View ArticleReversal Heeded in Gambling Seizure Case
Reversed by the Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit finally conceded Friday that Las Vegas is the wrong venue for professional gamblers to sue the Georgia police officer who seized their money.
View ArticleDan Sullivan's personal and professional timeline
1993 -- Enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps. As a 2nd lieutenant, deploys to the western Pacific with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit during the 1995 Taiwan Strait crisis.
View ArticleThe world through militia eyes
The Branch Davidians, a sect of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, were led by David Koresh and lived on a ranch in Elk, Texas, near Waco.
View ArticleThis Day in Liberal Judicial Activisma "April 20
Poway Unified School District , a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit rules that the First Amendment permits schools to impose viewpoint-discriminatory restrictions on student speech.
View Article9th Circuit Asked to Review Ruling in Glaxo v. Abbott, But Avoid...
Abbott, But Avoid Portion of It That Would Affect Gay Rights In a brief filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday, AbbVie Inc said the full court should review an...
View ArticleJudge Mueller to inherit contentious prison inmate case
U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller will inherit the bitter, 24-year-old litigation over the quality of care for mentally ill inmates in California's prisons when U.S. District Judge Lawrence K....
View ArticleSupreme Court declines to revive Arizona immigration law
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a provision in an Arizona law that sought to criminalize the harboring and transportation of illegal immigrants.
View ArticleSupreme Court Won't Hear Arizona Appeal Over Immigration Law's Harboring Ban
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from the state of Arizona over a ruling that blocked enforcement of part of Arizona's 2010 immigration law.
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