June 26, 2020
The Trump administration does not have the authority to transfer $2.5 billion in defense funds to finance construction of the president's long-promised border wall, the Ninth Circuit held Friday.
February 14, 2020
Several states and environmental groups asked the Ninth Circuit to prevent the Trump administration from diverting $3.6 billion that Congress earmarked for military construction projects to building a southern border wall.
November 12, 2019
The Sierra Club, along with California and a number of other states, urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to block President Donald Trump from using $2.5 billion in defense funds to construct a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, arguing the president's decision to take the money was unconstitutional.
October 04, 2019
The U.S. House of Representatives asked to participate in oral arguments in November when the Ninth Circuit takes on lawsuits over the Trump administration's attempt to use $2.5 billion of defense funds to build a wall along the southern border.
August 02, 2019
President Donald Trump, conjuring images of trekkers strapped with fishing rods and binoculars, has told the Ninth Circuit that people's passions for angling and bird-watching can't stop efforts to seal a porous, drug-running Southwest border by funding a wall.
July 08, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court made the biggest splash in environmental law during the first half of 2019 when it limited courts' ability to defer to federal agencies' interpretations of their own regulations. Here's a recap of the biggest environment-related court decisions from the first half of the year.
July 03, 2019
President Donald Trump has urged the Ninth Circuit in an emergency motion to block a lower court ruling that keeps him from pulling billions of dollars in Defense Department money to pay for six border wall projects while he tries to overturn the decision.
July 01, 2019
President Donald Trump can't reallocate $2.5 billion in defense dollars to fund two border wall projects in California and New Mexico, a California federal judge has declared, handing the states a partial win and certifying the dispute for the Ninth Circuit to take up in short order.
June 20, 2019
Ninth Circuit judges considering the government's appeal of an order partially blocking federal funds from being used for a U.S.-Mexico border wall questioned Thursday whether the feds are just inventing justifications to get around Congress, with one judge noting the government could claim it's building a giant movie screen.