The Ninth Circuit reversed a federal district court’s grant of habeas relief that had vacated Mark Alan Bradford’s 1988 murder conviction and death sentence, holding that the California Supreme Court’s rejection of his claims was not...
Mark Bradford v. Ron Broomfield
A published Ninth Circuit panel held that California's identification mandate for non-uniformed federal law enforcement officers likely violates the intergovernmental immunity doctrine and granted the federal government an injunction...
United States v. State of California
An eleven-judge en banc panel affirmed that a California city's voter-approved campaign finance law survives First Amendment scrutiny, setting circuit-wide precedent on what evidence a municipality must produce to justify contribution...
Moving Oxnard Forward, Inc. v. Lourdes Lopez