Supreme Court Upholds EPA's Logging Road Exception from Clean Water Act NPDES...
On March 20, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center that addresses the issue of "whether the Clean Water Act and its implementing regulations...
View ArticleShell's Plot to Take Away Your First Amendment Rights
Oil booms visible from the recent Exxon spill in Arkansas. If the court rules in Shell's favor in a current case, any corporation including Exxon could preemptively stop protesters like Greenpeace...
View Article9th Circuit Court of Appeals Says Amazon's Warehouse Workers Must Be...
A three judge panel of the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over most of the western States, issued an opinion today in the case of Busk v. Integrity Staffing Solutions ,...
View ArticleGovernor Brown, Prison Officials In Danger Of Contempt Of Court Over Prison...
A three-judge federal court has rejected a bid by Gov. Jerry Brown for modification of its order for the reduction of the number of inmates in the state's overcrowded prisons.
View ArticleSupport for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Remains Steadfast
In December of 2011, I wrote an article detailing the work of Injustice in Perugia , a grassroots organization that came together in an effort to help correct the wrongful convictions of Amanda Knox...
View ArticleJudge rules against Turkish banks
A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that the federal court system has jurisdiction to hold Turkish banks accountable for seizing land from Armenians during the Armenian Genocide.
View ArticleUpdate on the Two Mayors Trial Case
The eleven-year-long lawsuit against the Santa Cruz City Council for an exclusion and false arrest back in March 2002 is now going to appeal before Judge Robert Whyte in Federal District Court.
View ArticleCourt backs brokerages in forcing employees to hold accounts in-house
Brokerage firms can force their employees to keep investment accounts in-house at the brokerage firm, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled last week.
View ArticleUnited States: No Permits Required For Channeled Stormwater Discharges From...
On March 20, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the consolidated cases of Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center and Georgia-Pacific West, Inc.
View ArticleNinth Circuit en banc panel issues narrow arbitration opinion: Kilgore v....
In its original three-judge panel opinion last year, the Ninth Circuit held in no uncertain terms that under Concepcion , "the FAA preempts the Broughton - Cruz rule." Kilgore v. KeyBank, N.A. , 673...
View ArticleCase Of Indian Trader At Hubbell Trading Post Heading To 9th U.S. Circuit...
Billy Malone, an Indian trader forced out of Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site in Arizona by National Park Service investigators, is taking his case for damages to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court...
View ArticleFalling on Standing on Prop 8?: If the Supreme Court . . .
If the Supreme Court were to hold that Prop 8 proponents lack standing to defend Prop 8, the two rulings against Prop 8 below - Judge Reinhardt's ruling for the Ninth Circuit and then-Judge Vaughn...
View ArticleCourt tosses SoCal treasurer's corruption charges
A federal appeals court has tossed out a Southern California politician's conviction on more than two dozen corruption charges, but kept his bribery conviction in place.
View ArticleCourt tosses SoCal treasurer's corruption charges
A federal appeals court has tossed out a Southern California politician's conviction on more than two dozen corruption charges, but kept his bribery conviction in place.
View ArticleCalifornia ban on gay conversion therapy at center of legal battle
When the Legislature last year backed the nation's first ban on gay conversion therapy for minors, lawmakers had in mind the experiences of people such as James Guay.
View ArticleLaw on sex orientation therapy for youths heads to court
A first-of-its-kind California law is going to court this week, when a panel of judges will hear testimony about whether mental health professionals have the right to talk with young clients about...
View ArticleUS Court Rules Against Turkish Banks Over Armenian Genocide Land Seizure
US COURT RULES AGAINST TURKISH BANKS OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LAND SEIZURE 12:15 ~U 15.04.13 A US District Court judge has ruled that the federal court system has jurisdiction to hold Turkish banks...
View ArticleSCOTUS Press Office Doesn't Proofread Student Newspapers
Lewis and Clark Law School Dean Robert Klonoff has an impressive resume. According to the school's website , he graduated from Yale Law School, clerked for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and...
View ArticleGay Conversion Therapy Is Not Free Speech
Last fall the state of California adopted a ground-breaking bill, S.B. 1172. It was the first in the nation to ban licensed therapists from performing gay conversion therapy on minors under the age of 18.
View ArticleWSJ Ignores Supreme Court Ruling On Prison Overcrowding To Attack "Legal Legend"
Wall Street Journal columnist Allysia Finley smeared " legal legend " federal Judge Thelton Henderson, the Department of Justice's first African-American civil rights attorney, and ignored Supreme...
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