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In 1979, the Ninth Circuit became the first federal judicial circuit to set up a Bankruptcy Appellate Panel as authorized by the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. The Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeals, Pasadena, California. The cultural and political jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit is just as varied as the land within its geographical ...
Circuit Judge Barbara Lagoa: Miami, FL: 1967 2019–present — — Trump: 40 Circuit Judge Andrew L. Brasher: Birmingham, AL: 1981 2020–present — — Trump: 41 Circuit Judge Nancy Abudu: Atlanta, GA: 1974 2023–present — — Biden: 42 Circuit Judge Embry Kidd: Orlando, FL: 1983 2025–present — — Biden: 9 Senior Circuit Judge Gerald ...
Danielle Jo Forrest (born June 24, 1977 [1] [2]), formerly known as Danielle Jo Hunsaker, is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Forrest was previously an Oregon state court judge for the Washington County Circuit Court from 2017 to 2019.
Evergreen Dynasty Corp. (9th Cir. 2008), Berzon warned that the majority's decision could be detrimental to the enforcement of civil rights laws. [ 7 ] In a 2009 decision, Berzon wrote that while a San Francisco resolution condemning the Vatican was in line with current Establishment Clause jurisprudence, she was troubled by how close the ...
After law school, Owens was a law clerk for Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1996 to 1997 and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1997 to 1998. [5] Owens then worked as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice's Office of Consumer Litigation ...
Wallace served as Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit from 1991 to 1996. He assumed senior status on April 8, 1996. [ 2 ] As a senior judge, Wallace has a reduced caseload, but he continues to hear cases in the Ninth Circuit, and he sits by designation from time to time as a visiting judge on other federal appellate courts.
William Alan Fletcher (born June 6, 1945) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. [1] Appointed by President Bill Clinton, Fletcher was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1998. Fletcher is a Professor (Emeritus) at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he still teaches federal courts. [2]
In February 2012, Smith authored a dissent to the Ninth Circuit's decision in Perry v. Brown holding California Proposition 8 unconstitutional. He did agree with the majority that the appellants had standing to bring the appeal, and that Judge Vaughn Walker 's decision should not be vacated on allegations of bias.