WASHINGTON – Judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals criticized plans to split the massive Western circuit in two, telling a House committee Thursday that doing so would cost taxpayers money ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Despite alarming reports of pest invasions and contaminated food, a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday refused to impose stricter health and safety requirements at an industrial ...

(Reuters) - Over the summer, StarKist Co. and its friends in the business lobby threw red meat (or was it sushi-grade tuna?) to class action skeptics on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sign up here. This week ...

Court watchers have differing views on whether proposals to split the circuit will stall or gain traction. Proponents of a split point to Ninth Circuit's size, pending appeals. Critics say judicial ...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - I’ve said it before: When it comes to petitions asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case – or briefs urging the justices not to grant review – framing makes all the difference.

“Here, the grantees assert a non-statutory right to vindicate separation-of-powers principles but they are foreclosed from doing so" by Supreme Court precedent, the appellate court stated.