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Ninth Circuit eases path to citizenship for some children of naturalized U.S. citizens FacebookTwitterEmail The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. residents who were under 18 when a 1952 law was in effect were eligible for citizenship through their parents, protecting them from deportation.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle With key votes from two appointees of former President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court eased the path to citizenship Thursday for some children of naturalized U.S. ci...

CalSavers Survives Legal Challenge Appellate court rules ERISA doesn’t pre-empt the California law that created the state-managed IRA program. A US appellate court has upheld a district court’s ruling to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the legality of the CalSavers Retirement Savings Program, a state-managed individual retirement account (IRA) program for private sector workers whose employers do not provide a tax-qualified retirement savings plan. In 2017, the California Legislature enacted ...

CalSavers state pension plan survives challenge by Jarvis taxpayers group FacebookTwitterEmail State Treasurer Fiona Ma, chairwoman of the CalSavers Retirement Savings Board, said the ruling preserves “a simple solution to level the playing field for workers who for too long haven’t had access to workplace based retirement plans.”Paul Chinn/The Chronicle CalSavers, the employee-funded, state-managed retirement system for millions of Californians whose employers have no retirement plan, is...

(CN) — The Ninth Circuit on Thursday rejected a bid by an anti-tax group to block CalSavers, California’s state-sponsored retirement plan for private workers. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA), an influential anti-tax group with roots in the Golden State, sued the CalSavers program claiming it was preempted by the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). CalSavers allows eligible employers that do not offer 401(k) plans or pensions to automatically enroll their ...

Legal Californias state-run retirement savings program not preempted by ERISA - 9th Circuit Daniel Wiessner 4 minute read A gavel and a block is pictured at the George Glazer Gallery antique store in this illustration picture taken in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/Illustration A U.S. appeals court on Thursday said Californias state-run individual retirement account program for workers is not governed or preempted by the federal law on employee benefits, e...

San Francisco Hall of Justice, which houses County Jail No. 4. (Courthouse News photo via Wikipedia) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge wrongly ordered two San Francisco county jails to provide an hour of access to outdoor sunlight per week to pre-trial inmates locked up for more than four years, an attorney for the city argued before three Ninth Circuit judges Thursday. “There is no per se constitutional right to outdoor recreation under either the Eighth or the Fourteenth amendments,”...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Gun enthusiasts view AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle upper receiver parts and kits at a 2015 gun show in Del Mar, Calif. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Ruling that struck down California ban on large-capacity gun magazines is vacated for rehearing SAN DIEGO — A recent appellate court decision that struck down California’s ban on possessing large-capacity gun magazines has been vacated as a broader panel of the court readies to rehear the San Diego-ba...

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats will maintain a Republican policy and allow federal...

How Trump shook up the balance of an appeals court once reviled by the right Ben Feuer FacebookTwitterEmail President Trump shook up the balance of an appeals court once reviled by conservatives.Getty Images In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter, with a Democratic supermajority in the Senate, doubled the size of the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and appointed some of the most liberal judges in American history. By 1980, Carter’s 15 appointments meant nearly 70% of the...

This Dec. 16, 2019, file photo, shows a public phone near detainees in a residential pod during a media tour of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Tacoma, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (CN) — Federal immigration officials argued to the Ninth Circuit Wednesday they should not be under a nationwide court order to provide special care to disabled detainees due to Covid-19 because they responded to the pandemic in a timely manner. Despite numerous outbreaks of Covid...