Aug 13 2024 26 mins
While the Supreme Court wrapped up its term, the Ninth Circuit had some interesting cases of its own. Carjacking is “nonviolent,” for-profit prisons are constitutional, and Covid vaccine religious exemptions are on the table. Practitioners might also look forward to focus letters and earlier panel notifications. All this and other recent cases and news.
- Carjacking is nonviolent? Gutierrez v. Garland
- Private prisons are not unconstitutional: Nielsen v. Thornell
- Religious exemption to Covid vaccine mandate may proceed: split panel in Bacon v. Woodward
- Arb costs denial reversed: Sanzone v. DCH Korean Imports, LLC
- No meet and confer, get sanctioned. *Gordon v. Chandler (Estate of Ambrose-Gordon)*
- A minute order is not a statement of decision. O'Neill v. Cara
- Judge VanDyke’s “disgrantle”, U.S. v. Duarte aka Shorty
- Assembly Member Garcia has proposed a bill to allow for the disqualification of appellate justices:AB-2125 Judicial officers: disqualification
- In a recent column, Justice Bedsworth states he is Trying to Retire, Again
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