Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has long had an existing ban on gun sales to anyone who uses marijuana . The ban was upheld in a controversial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in August; A medical marijuana patient in Nevada said the ban violated the Second Amendment, but the 9th Circuit unanimously agreed that pot and other drug use "raises the risk of irrational or unpredictable behavior with which gun use should not be associated."
A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit by six states challenging a California law that prohibits the sale off eggs from chickens that are not raised in accordance with strict space requirements. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that the states failed to show how the law would affect them and not just individual egg farmers.
Defense attorney Andy Savage points to a video during the murder trial of former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager at the Charleston County court in Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. Sla... .
On Nov. 4 the state of Alaska and other appellees formally requested the U.S. Supreme Court to review an opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upholding the designation of polar bear critical habitat by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday reinstated an Arizona law that makes it a felony to collect early ballots, stepping into a contentious political issue days before the presidential election and dealing a blow to Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts. The unsigned order from the nation's highest court overturns an appeals court decision from a day earlier that blocked the new law and drew celebration from Democrats.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Republicans and ordered a law in Arizona banning ballot collecting by third party groups can stand in Tuesday's election. Republicans in Arizona passed the ballot collection law, making it a felony punishable by up to a year in jail and a $150,000 fine for someone to turn in a ballot that is not their own.
A federal appeals court has blocked an Arizona law making it a felony to collect early ballots, a win for the Democratic get-out-the-vote effort shortly before Election Day. Friday's order from an 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means it won't be a crime for groups to go door to door to collect early ballots from voters and deliver them to the polls.
A federal appeals court panel is considering whether to order Arizona to count ballots cast by voters in the wrong precinct as requested in a lawsuit by some voters and the state and national Democratic parties. A lawyer representing the voters and the party said a district court judge got it wrong when he ruled that Arizona has a valid reason not to count the ballots because local races are involved.
A federal appeals court on Friday will hear arguments in the civil case against a U.S. Border Patrol agent who killed a Mexican teen in a cross-border shooting in Arizona. The hearing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will focus on whether people on foreign soil harmed by U.S. authorities have the right to sue in the United States.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco says used car retailer CarMax must tell buyers in California the condition of individual vehicle components it inspects. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday CarMax's practice of providing buyers with the list of components inspected as part of its used car certification program, but not their condition, violates California law.
This undated booking photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows James McKinney. The Supreme Court won't hear Arizona's appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned McKinney's death sentence and opened the door for other death row inmates in the state to challenge their sentences.
The Supreme Court let stand a lower court opinion that said that the NCAA's so called "amateur rules" that required that college students not be paid -- violate antitrust laws. The opinion by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said the NCAA could not limit schools from giving full scholarships including costs of attendance to students.
A federal appeals court says the defense department does not have to disclose the names of foreign students who attend a U.S. Army school whose predecessor trained South American military officials who were linked to massacres and other crimes. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Friday that disclosing the names of students at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation would be an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy that could expose them to violence.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Tustin Police Officer Osvaldo Villareal couldn't reasonably have feared for his safety when he shot 31-year-old Benny Herrera after responding to a domestic dispute call in December 2011. That determination ran counter to the Orange County District Attorney's Office, which said in 2013 that the shooting was reasonable and justified because Villareal fired after Herrera ignored orders to show his hands.
Online review site Yelp's star rating system does not make it liable for negative reviews posted on the site because it relies on reviews of businesses from users, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, dismissing a libel lawsuit filed against Yelp by a Washington state locksmith company owner. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the star rating system that Yelp features is based on users' input and is not content created by the company that helps guides people to everything from restaurants to plumbers.
An appeals court has resurrected a lawsuit by former jail inmate in metro Phoenix who claims her rights were violated in 2009 when officers restrained her before and after she gave birth to her son at a hospital.
Judge Harry Pregerson stands for a portrait in front of a wall featuring pictures of his 136 former law clerks on Dec. 17, 2015 in Woodland Hills, Calif. The liberal icon on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had a 50-year career as a Los Angeles-based judge.
Gov. Jerry Brown said Friday that he signed SB1187, authorizing the money for the Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians. The state had little choice after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year in favor of the tribe, which operates a casino in northern San Diego County.