The Latest Breaking News from the 9th Circuit

On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by the federal government regarding whether Idaho’s abortion ban conflicts with a federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The law requires emergency rooms to provide stabilizing care for patients experiencing medical emergencies regardless of…

The Supreme Court will allow abortions in Idaho in emergency situations, for now, despite the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.

The state's gun permit policy underlines the absurdity of assuming that cannabis consumers are too dangerous to be trusted with firearms.

The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.

Legislators are taking a page from constitutionally dubious state laws that make carry permits highly impractical to use.

Undocumented immigrants aren’t the same as an invading army, but the Texas governor keeps acting like they are.

The state's law, which a federal judge enjoined last month, prohibits firearms in most public places.

The Supreme Court will decide this term whether Idaho can enforce its abortion ban as it applies to emergency rooms.

If a school board member has a social media account, would it be wrong for them to block someone and delete their comments? That’s a question the Supreme Court has decided to take up after public officials, including two school board members, blocked constituents from seeing their accounts or removed…

After a federal judge deemed the state's location-specific gun bans unconstitutional, the 9th Circuit stayed his injunction.

An appeals court said former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., should not have been tried in California on charges of lying to investigators.