Post Tagged with: "9th circuit"

• Republican Presidential Candidates Question Virtues of Judicial Independence

  By Bill O'Neil, Courts, Original Content, Voting and Elections October 24, 2011 at 6:05 pm 0 comments

  Fueled by the lingering (and largely erroneous) perception of a liberal judiciary, Republican presidential candidates are calling for new legislation to curb the power of federal judges.  As the Washington Post reports, a majority of the Republican field is calling for some sort of judicial reform, including the abolition of [...]

   

• "In God We Trust"… except in math class

  By Bill O'Neil, First Amendment, Original Content September 18, 2011 at 9:15 pm 0 comments

  Last week, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that a California school district did not violate a teacher’s free speech rights by ordering him to remove posters bearing the national motto, among other phrases. In late 2006, Bradley Johnson, a San Diego County math [...]

   

• DOJ's Powerful DOMA Brief in the 9th Circuit

  By Jason Lee, Courts, Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights July 22, 2011 at 4:10 pm 0 comments

  As the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is (hopefully) hopefully underway, with a possible certification by top Pentagon officials in the coming days, CRCL would be remiss if we failed to applaud the Department of Justice’s recent Brief in Opposition to Motions to Dismiss in the 9th Circuit case, [...]

   

• 9th Circuit Won't Ask You For Your Papers

  By Noah Kaplan, Courts, Issue Areas, Privacy and National Security, Race and Immigration April 11, 2011 at 9:17 pm 7 comments

  The 9th Circuit Monday upheld the action by an Arizona district court blocking parts of Arizona’s controversial immigration law from going into effect. The ruling by District Judge Susan R. Bolton that the court upheld blocked provisions in the law that would allow for warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants and would criminalize the failure of immigrants to carry registration papers.

   

• Immunity of Government Officials Is Not A License to Ignore the Constitution

  By Noah Kaplan, Courts, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Issue Areas, Privacy and National Security March 11, 2011 at 9:25 am 0 comments

  The Supreme Court head argument on March 2 in the case of Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, questioning whether John Ashcroft is entitled to immunity from charges that Abdullah Al-Kidd was held under the act allowing detention of material witnesses, but was treated as a suspect and was in fact never intended to be a witness in any trial. Ashcroft v. Iqbal did enough to undermine the ability of those wrongfully detained by an overzealous government to challenge their detentions, and now Ashcroft asks the court to go even further. The Court needs to take a strong stance that waving the flag of fighting terrorism is not a license to ignore the democratic freedoms government officials claim to be protecting.

   

• J. Reinhardt Refuses to Recuse Himself from Prop 8 Case

  By Jason Lee, Courts, Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights December 2, 2010 at 12:31 pm 0 comments

  Quickly following on the heels of an announcement of which 9th Circuit judges would here the federal appeal of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a suit challenging the constitutionality of CA’s gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, same-sex marriage opponents filed a motion asking Judge Stephen Reinhardt to recuse himelf from the case.  [...]