The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the conviction and prison sentence of a man who threw a small baggie of crystal meth into a casino trash can in April 2016. Ninth Circuit judges ruled that U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona...

SAN FRANCISCO—Young people from Alaska, Arizona, California, and Nevada have been selected the winners of the 2019 Ninth Circuit Civics Contest, an educational outreach effort to high school students sponsored by the federal courts. The theme of the 2019 contest was “The 4th...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied yesterday two petitions for rehearing of a motion for sentence reduction requested by former businessman Bert Douglas Montgomery, who was handed a 20-year prison sentence in 2003 for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the...

SAN FRANCISCO—The 2019 Ninth Circuit Civics Contest, an essay and video competition for high school students sponsored by federal courts of the western United States, has been extended. The new deadline for entries is 11:59pm Pacific Time on Monday, April 8, 2019. For more...