...her judicial commission within a week or two and said her best guess is she'll begin the new post with the San Francisco-based court in January. For now, she will remain busy on the state Supreme Court, she said.Circuit judges receive an...

...rockfish by nearly 30 percent even though they knew the species was severely overfished. On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based court sided with the environmentalists, calling the 2002 quota "patently unreasonable." Quotas for darkblotched...

...Supreme Court. But that's far from the whole story. Republicans have been trying for years to break up the San Francisco-based court claimed to be too liberal for many of the Western states it serves. Conservatives have had it with the court...

...fast-track a breakup of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. House Republicans are including a split of the San Francisco-based court, which covers nine Western states, in a budget-reduction bill that could win House approval as soon as Thursday...

...have taken the position that notice and comment had been inadequate," Judge Sidney R. Thomas wrote for the San Francisco-based court. Sharon Buccino, a Natural Resources Defense Council attorney, said the transfer facilities, which she called...