Business & Tech Ninth Circuit Sides With Musk In Case About California Social Media Content Moderation Law A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has taken Elon Musk's and Xitter's side in a case concerning a new California law that mandates broad disclosures for social media platforms about their content moderation practices.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Clears Way For San Francisco to Resume Encampment Sweeps Although the removal of homeless encampments had not completely stopped in San Francisco, a panel of federal appellate judges just ordered an injunction to be lifted that clears a legal hurdle to the city's efforts to clear illegal encampments.
SF News Berkeley's Ban On Gas-Powered Appliances Once Again Blocked By Ninth Circuit On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling denying an "en banc" rehearing of a case that was decided by a three-judge panel of the court last April, blocking Berkeley's ban on natural gas appliances in new construction.
SF News Federal Judge Strikes Down California Assault Weapons Ban, State AG Already Vows to Appeal The 34-year-old California assault weapons ban was ruled unconstitutional in a Thursday decision by a federal judge, but state Attorney General Rob Bonta insists the ban remains in place while he puts together an appeal.
SF News City of San Francisco Files Brief With Supreme Court on Homeless Encampment Case Even though San Francisco's own injunction on homeless encampment-clearing is not on trial at the Supreme Court, the city has now filed a brief in another case that is sure to have implications here.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Sends Latest Salvo In Battle With Coalition on Homelessness Regarding Encampments What could end up being a very significant legal battle over homeless encampments and cities' ability to address them is playing out at the Ninth Circuit, and in legal filings by the plaintiff in the case, the Coalition on Homelessness, and the City of San Francisco.
SF Politics Raucous Rallies Outside Courthouse As Court Hears Appeal of SF Encampment Sweep Ban, But Gives No Decision Even Mayor London Breed was out shouting down the opposition at a Wednesday morning protest and counterprotest before an appeals hearing on the SF encampment sweep ban, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the protesters and rendered no decision today.
SF News West Oakland ISIS Wannabe Gets Sentence Reduced After Terrorism Charges Dropped An East Bay man who’d tried to get recruited by ISIS in 2016, but was dealing with undercover FBI instead, had his sentence reduced from 16 years to seven years, after an appeals court decided that his Twitter threats did not constitute actual terrorism.
SF News 9th Circuit Upholds CA Ban On High-Capacity Gun Magazines, Will Take Up Assault Weapon Ban Next Gun-law rulings by a controversial federal judge based in San Diego are likely both to be overturned by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, setting up the potential for more Second Amendment fights at the Supreme Court.
SF News Trump and Bush Appointees On Ninth Circuit Rule That CA Ban On High-Capacity Magazines Is Unconstitutional In a victory for the gun lobby, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has invalidated California's law limiting gun magazines to 10 bullets, saying that the law violates the Second Amendment.
SF News Appeal To Decriminalize Sex Work In California Moves To Court The Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational, and Research Project filed a federal lawsuit back in 2015, challenging a 145-year-old California law that makes sex work illegal. On Thursday, attorney Louis Serkin, representing the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California's Foie Gras Ban May Be Back On, Pending An Appeal Following a brief, two-and-a-half-year period in which it was illegal to produce or sell foie gras in California, following the implementation of a law that dated back to 2004 in the California banning
SF News Once Again, Ninth Circuit Rules Against Trump Travel Ban The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to leave in place a preliminary injunction halting the revised executive order from President Trump regarding travel from six Muslim-majority nations. Arguments in the case
SF News Ninth Circuit Hears Travel Ban Arguments Again Today For the second time in three months, lawyers for the Trump Administration are presenting arguments in support of the president's executive order temporarily banning travel and/or immigration from a half dozen Muslim-majority
SF News Three Ninth Circuit Judges Ask Congressional Committee Not To Split Up The Court Three judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals not the same three involved in the decision to uphold an injunction against President Trump's ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority nations last month
SF News Ninth Circuit Declines To Delay Trump Travel Ban Appeal The Trump Administration had until this week to file an opening brief in their official appeal of the case brought by the states of Washington and Minnesota in his temporary ban on immigration
SF News Trump Denied Stay Of Restraining Order On Travel Ban By Ninth Circuit A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Thursday afternoon to deny the Trump administration's request for an emergency stay of a restraining order issued last Friday by a
SF News Appellate Judges Question Administration's Lawyer On Trump's Public Statements On Muslims Listening to the live oral arguments in Washington State v. Trump, it seems clear that the three appellate judges of the Ninth Circuit Judges Michelle Friedland, Richard Clifton, and William Canby were somewhat
SF News Hearing On Trump Immigration Order To Be Live-Streamed And Here Are The Three Judges Involved In a rare occurrence for an appeals court hearing on a major case, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit today will be hearing oral arguments by phone in State of Washington v.
SF News Ninth Circuit Schedules Hearing On Trump Immigration Order For Tuesday Following DOJ Brief The Department of Justice filed its brief Monday afternoon on behalf of the Trump administration ahead of the 3 p.m. PT deadline at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco,
SF News Trump Administration To Do Battle With Ninth Circuit Court In SF This Week Over Immigration Ban Because Friday's temporary restraining order blocking President Trump's executive order on immigration (that's more commonly being called a "Muslim ban") came from a federal judge in Seattle, the Trump Administration is stuck battling
SF News Prop 8, DOMA Cases Go Before Supreme Court On Friday In the ongoing legal battle between people who just want to marry each other and people who have an antiquated definition of marriage, the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week whether
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. to Host Benefit Reading of Dustin Lance Black's Prop 8 Play '8' This fall, A.C.T. will be hosting the Bay Area premiere of Dustin Lance Black's play based on the 2010 Prop 8 trial in federal district court in San Francisco. The event
SF News State's Gay Marriage Ban Likely To Go To U.S. Supreme Court The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, who ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional earlier this year, issued a brief today stating the court would not be revisiting the earlier ruling on the same-sex marriage ban.
SF News Supreme Court Upholds 9th Circuit Decision On Religious Speech in Schools SCOTUS yesterday effectively decided to uphold an earlier decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the use of religious messages and textbooks in classrooms. The two cases one involving a San
