( October 9, 2025, 9:52 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The clerk of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has issued an order denying Ventura County’s motion to dismiss an appeal brought by an oil company seeking review of a lower court’s dismissal of the company’s claim for inverse condemnation in a dispute over a default judgment that nullified the company’s zoning clearance to conduct drilling operations....