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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard argument in Haskell v. Harris. The case focused on the constitutionality of California’s mandatory collection of DNA samples from in…

A panel of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judges heard oral arguments in Johnson v. Poway Unified School District, which involved a teacher’s free speech rights and the display of religious …

Oral arguments were heard in the Nurre v. Whitehead, a case challenging a school’s decision to forbid band students from performing Ave Maria at the 2006 graduation ceremony as a violation o…

The full panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument in Padilla v. Lever over allegations that Orange County, California, election officials violated the Voting Rights Ac…

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Nadarajah v. Gonzales to decide whether the government could continue to detain Ahilan Nadarajah while his grant of asylum was appe…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th District heard oral argument in the case of Santiago v. Rumsfeld. Sergeant Emiliano Santiago, a member of the Oregon Army National Guard, had two weeks …

Judges testified about the possible split of the 9th judicial circuit into two parts. Among the topics they addressed were the case load in the circuit, the pace of appeals hearings and case…