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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,” Deputy City Attorney Kaitlyn Murphy said, referring to the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on cru...

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-based case. The appeal was initially decided in August in a split decision by a three-judge panel of t...

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 court’s judges were Democrats. Some would later become household names, both celebrated and revil...

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-19 at multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, an attorney for the government argue...