The chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed plaintiffs securities lawyers a partial victory Wednesday, while one of his protégés handed them a flat-out defeat.

Female workers suing Wal-Mart got some good news last month, when a judge in San Francisco green-lighted a regional version of the nationwide employment class action that the Supreme Court rejected last year. But this week Gibson Dunn reminded the plaintiffs that pursuing their regional strategy is going to be tough.

Submitted on May 7, 2009OPINIONCeltic Properties, L.C. ("Celtic") filed a lawsuit against Cleveland Regional Medical Center, L.P. ("CRMC") for breach of a lease agreement, failure to pay rent, a

[PUBLISH]Before TJOFLAT, BLACK and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.In this capital case, Gregory Alan Kokal claims that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendme

Before Torruella, Selya and Howard, Circuit Judges.Following a three-day jury trial, Defendant Darryl Dowdell was convicted of distribution of cocaine base and sentenced as a career offender to 198

ON REHEARING PUBLISHED&Thorn;Argued: December 4, 2009Decided:Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and AGEE and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Chief Judge T

Affirmed in Part and Reversed and Remanded in Part and OpinionOPINIONSandra Graves and Michael Tomlinson each appeal from the trial court's divorce decree on numerous grounds. Sandra Graves a