The Latest Breaking News from Ninth Circuit

Prayer trails, controlled burns, and copyrighted law.

From Junior Sports Magazines, Inc. v. Bonta, decided today by Ninth Circuit Judge Kenneth Lee, joined by Judges Randy Smith and Lawrence VanDyke: This case is not about whether children can buy firearms. (They cannot under California law.) Nor is this case about whether minors can legally use firearms. (California…

3,000 years of overdetention, chief lickspittle, and the wrong side of the road.

Detroit's forfeiture machine, major nuclear questions, and copyrightable materials.

Zombie jokes, perplexing paths, and a handsy officer.

Chalk, meme stocks, and a dog in peril.

Butterfly knives, and prison atrocities, and a clueless detective.

Moot beaches, sparking the French Revolution, and cash-bail advocacy.

The 2-1 ruling (divided along surprising ideological lines) is a win for the administration. But they may well still end up losing in the end.

From Day v. California Lutheran Univ., decided yesterday by Ninth Circuit Judges Gabriel Sanchez and Salvador Mendoza, Jr., and District Court Judge Brian Jackson (M.D. La.) (reversing a decision I blogged about last Fall): In January 2020, a group of students from the California Lutheran University ("CLU") women's softball team…

Two Central District of California case reach different results.