The 9th Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of consumers’ Fair Credit Reporting Act claims against Wells Fargo, ruling that the bank’s opening of unauthorized accounts and subsequent credit pulls stated a plausible claim of willful violation.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for an insurer, ruling that unambiguous lending exclusions in a commercial liability policy bar coverage for Pacific Premier Bancorp Inc. and Pacific Premier Bank in litigation alleging they prolonged a real estat...
The 9th Circuit enforced an arbitration agreement between independent pharmacies and CVS Health, rejecting claims that the deal was unconscionable, but affirmed a lower court’s refusal to enforce a delegation clause that would have forced arbitrators to dec...
The Ninth Circuit ruled that California’s ongoing foster care dependency proceedings do not qualify as civil enforcement actions akin to criminal prosecutions, allowing a class action lawsuit by transition-age youth to proceed in federal court.
The Ninth Circuit reversed a federal district court’s grant of habeas relief that had vacated Mark Alan Bradford’s 1988 murder conviction and death sentence, holding that the California Supreme Court’s rejection of his claims was not objectively unreasonable.
A Ninth Circuit panel reversed Andres Sanchez’s tax fraud conviction and ordered a new trial, holding that the district court applied the wrong legal standard when it allowed an 11-member jury to return a verdict after a racially biased juror was excused du...
A federal appeals court reversed a jury verdict for a jail nurse and reinstated a lawsuit against Orange County, ruling the nurse lacked qualified immunity and the county failed to train staff on stroke symptoms.
A federal appeals court reversed summary judgment for the Department of the Army in a sexual orientation discrimination case, finding that a co-worker’s homophobic slurs and a tainted investigation created genuine disputes of material fact.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to the City of Eugene, ruling that plaintiffs lacked Article III standing for a pre-enforcement First Amendment challenge to park rules, but reversed the denial of leave to amend, allow...
The Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, has ruled that a Chapter 7 trustee accused of letting two Los Angeles estate properties deteriorate is not entitled to immunity, reviving a creditor's adversary proceeding.
A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed qualified immunity for a Seattle police officer who shot and killed a man fleeing with his baby, though a dissenting judge argued the suspect posed no immediate threat.
SAN FRANCISCO (LN) — A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a class action alleging Reddit failed to deliver human-generated ad clicks, holding that the contract term "click" broadly includes automated activity.
A district court had struck the word "operation" from Arizona's birth-certificate amendment statute and its implementing regulation, a ruling set to take effect in two days.
A man who alleges a county lieutenant orchestrated a sham investigation and filed charges against him days after he escalated a civil rights complaint gets another shot in court.
The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal of a declaratory judgment action brought by the County of San Bernardino against the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, holding that the insurer’s annual aggregate limit does not apply t...
A published Ninth Circuit panel held that California's identification mandate for non-uniformed federal law enforcement officers likely violates the intergovernmental immunity doctrine and granted the federal government an injunction pending appeal.
An eleven-judge en banc panel affirmed that a California city's voter-approved campaign finance law survives First Amendment scrutiny, setting circuit-wide precedent on what evidence a municipality must produce to justify contribution limits and how courts...
A published Ninth Circuit ruling holds that parents of a student with disabilities cannot reset the IDEA's two-year statute of limitations by waiting for a clinical diagnosis when the record already shows they knew — or should have known — that the school d...
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s certification of California and New York classes in Drake v. Bayer Healthcare LLC, rejecting Bayer’s arguments that individualized issues of reliance and damages precluded class treatment under Rule 2...
The Ninth Circuit vacated Shahriyar Bolandian’s insider trading conviction and ordered a new trial after finding that the district court failed to properly investigate a juror who expressed uncertainty about his impartiality.