United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit
Recent News About United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit
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A closely watched climate case is dismissed; Will the others survive?
The private lawyers who engineered the latest round of municipal lawsuits over climate change hoped they’d found a path through the thicket of precedents blocking their way by suing oil companies for selling hydrocarbons instead of burning them and by citing state instead of federal law. -
Ninth Circuit: Individual arbitration waiver agreements are unenforceable
The federal appeals court vacated a California federal court’s order compelling individual arbitration in a class action filed against audit firm Ernst & Young by its employees. -
Plaintiffs law firm seeks U.S. SC review of malpractice class action filed against it
According to the Supreme Court docket, the case is set for conference March 18. Attorneys for Milberg LLP argue the continued prosecution of the matter as a class action is time barred and the claims of the putative class members have expired.