The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts:
Marsha Lee Berzon is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Harry Pregerson was a United States circuit judge appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Pregerson was regarded as one of the judiciary's most liberal judges,attracting both praise and criticism for his insistence on placing his conscience above court precedent.
Cecil Francis Poole was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California,and a United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. He was the first African American to serve as a United States Attorney,the first African American to serve as a Judge of the Northern District of California and the second African American to serve as a Judge of the Ninth Circuit.
Richard Anthony Paez is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Andrew Jay Kleinfeld is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2010. He served as an active judge on the Ninth Circuit from 1991 to 2010. Kleinfeld was previously a United States district judge on the United States District Court for the District of Alaska from 1986 to 1991.
Vaughn Richard Walker is an American lawyer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1989 to 2011. Walker presided over the original trial in Hollingsworth v. Perry,where he found California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional.
Percy Anderson is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
William Haskell Alsup is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Carl Joseph Barbier is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
William Brevard Hand was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Lynn Nettleton Hughes is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas,known for being removed from an unusual number of cases for showing bias and failing to follow federal rules. Hughes has been removed from so many cases that appeals seeking his removal have been described by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit as "déjàvu all over again."
Otis Dalino Wright II is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Hollingsworth v. Perry was a series of United States federal court cases that re-legalized same-sex marriage in the state of California. The case began in 2009 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,which found that banning same-sex marriage violates equal protection under the law. This decision overturned California ballot initiative Proposition 8,which had banned same-sex marriage. After the State of California refused to defend Proposition 8,the official sponsors of Proposition 8 intervened and appealed to the Supreme Court. The case was litigated during the governorships of both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown,and was thus known as Perry v. Schwarzenegger and Perry v. Brown,respectively. As Hollingsworth v. Perry,it eventually reached the United States Supreme Court,which held that,in line with prior precedent,the official sponsors of a ballot initiative measure did not have Article III standing to appeal an adverse federal court ruling when the state refused to do so.
Josephine Laura Staton is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Rocky Mountain Bank v. Google Inc. was a decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California holding that Google had to reveal the account information of a Gmail user who had been mistakenly sent sensitive information from Rocky Mountain Bank.
Robert Nichols Scola Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management,824 F. Supp. 2d 968,was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff,Karen Golinski,challenged the constitutionality of section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA),which defined,for the purposes of federal law,marriage as being between one man and one woman,and spouse as a husband or wife of the opposite sex.
James Joseph Donato is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Joffe v. Google,Inc. is a federal lawsuit between Ben Joffe and Google,Inc. Joffe claimed that Google broke one of the Wiretap Act segments when they intruded on the seemingly "public" wireless networks of private homes through their Street View application. Although Google tried to appeal their case multiple times,the courts favored Joffe's argument. Ultimately the Supreme Court declined to take the case,affirming the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that the Wiretap Act covers the interception of unencrypted Wi-Fi communications.
