Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe Oral arguments clocked in at a little less than an hour on Wednesday in a case with the potential to freeze $1 billion in government spending and shake up homelessness policy across the region. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard a challenge from the city and county of Los Angeles, which are trying to overturn a sweeping injunction issued by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter that would compel the local governments to offer shelter to everyone on Skid Row by mid-October. Los Angeles Community Action Network ( LA CAN) is a third party intervenor in the case, also asking the appeals court to vacate the order.