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Federal officers hold down a protester in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, on Oct. 4, 2025, after protesters learned that U.S. Border Patrol shot a woman Saturday morning on Chicago's Southwest Side. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Oct 20, 2025

Federal appeals court lets Trump send troops to Portland

A divided U.S. appeals court ruled that Donald Trump can send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon.

Venezuelan migrants board a plane heading back to their home country from Harlingen, Texas, on Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez, File)
Sep 2, 2025

Appeals court rules against Trump plans to end legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelan migrants

A federal appeals court ruled against President Donald Trump's plans to end temporary protections for 600,000 Venezuelans.

People wait outside of Glass House Farms, a day after an immigration raid on the facility in Camarillo, California, on July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Aug 4, 2025

Appeals court keeps order blocking indiscriminate immigration sweeps

A federal court upheld a lower court’s temporary order blocking the Trump administration from conducting indiscriminate immigration stops.

President Donald Trump speaks during an AI summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington on July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Jul 24, 2025

Appeals court finds Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship unconstitutional, upholds block

A federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.

California National Guard stand in formation guarding the federal building in downtown Los Angeles on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Jun 20, 2025

Appeals court lets Trump keep control of National Guard troops deployed to LA

An appeals court allowed President Donald Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids.

Signs are seen as Tshishiku Henry, a former refugee and Washington State Delegate for the Refugee Congress, speaks during a rally outside the U.S District Court in Seattle after a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's effort to halt the nation's refugee admissions system, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun, File)
May 15, 2025

Seattle judge rescinds order directing Trump administration to admit 12,000 refugees

A judge rescinded an order that would have required the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States.

Signs are seen as Tshishiku Henry, a former refugee and Washington State Delegate for the Refugee Congress, speaks during a rally outside the U.S District Court in Seattle after a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's effort to halt the nation's refugee admissions system, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun, File)
May 6, 2025

Judge orders Trump administration to admit roughly 12,000 refugees

The court order partially blocks President Trump’s efforts to suspend the nation’s refugee admissions program.

KOZINSKI
Jul 27, 2018

Kozinski’s reemergence leaves accusers vexed

Judge Alex Kozinski was suddenly back in the spotlight, and the legal and political worlds were left to wrestle with the aftershocks of his fall from grace.

Sep 18, 2013

U.S. court upholds California’s ‘Low Carbon Fuel Standard’ law

SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of federal judges on Wednesday upheld California‘s first-in-the-nation mandate requiring fuel producers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit […]

Sep 18, 2013

Court decides if gay juror can be taken off case

SAN FRANCISCO — A multibillion dollar case between two giant pharmaceutical companies grappling over arcane antitrust issues has unexpectedly turned into a gay rights legal imbroglio that raises questions over […]

Sep 10, 2013

Google loses appeal in Street View snooping case

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Attorneys suing Google for enabling its camera-carrying vehicles to collect emails and Internet passwords while photographing neighborhoods for the search giant’s popular “Street View” maps look […]

Sep 9, 2013

Federal court rejects death row appeal based on IQ

BOISE, Idaho — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Idaho death row inmate Gerald Pizzuto Jr.’s claim that he is too mentally disabled to be executed. A […]