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Ninth Circuit Finds First Amendment Right to Donate to Patient Assistance Charities, With Possible Impact on Enforcement of Federal Anti-Kickback Statute

Last week, the Ninth Circuit issued a published decision striking down California’s Assembly Bill 290 (“AB 290”) on First Amendment grounds. See Fresenius Med. Care Orange Cnty., LLC v. Bonta, No.
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Ninth Circuit Panel Holds That the Second Amendment Prohibits Certain Requirements Regarding Firearm Permits and Physical Inspection

First, the panel reasoned that the right to possess firearms necessarily includes the right to acquire them, bringing the conduct regulated by Section 134-2(e) within the plain text of the Second ...
Law

9th Circuit Petitioned for En Banc Rehearing After Striking Down Challenge to SEC’s Settlement ‘Gag Rule’

A conservative nonprofit public interest law firm is requesting that an en banc panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rehear its First Amendment challenge to the U.S. Securities and ...
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9th Circuit Rejects First Amendment Challenge to SEC’s Settlement ‘Gag Rule’

“Though the plaintiffs assert that the SEC possesses outsized power, frequently settles its cases, and makes defendants’ agreement to Rule 202.5(e) non-negotiable, the record also reflects that ...
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'Knife Rights' group takes a stab at the Second Amendment at Ninth Circuit

PASADENA, Calif. (CN) — Should you be able to carry a switchblade in public? An Arizona-based knife rights organization thinks so. Knife Rights, Inc., argued in front of a three-judge panel of the ...
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Cancellation of DEI-Related Grants Likely Violates First Amendment, Ninth Circuit Holds

Today's Ninth Circuit decision in Thakur v. Trump (Judge Morgan B. Christen, joined by Judges Richard A. Paez and Roopali H. Desai) denied a stay pending appeal of a district court preliminary ...
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Ninth Circuit Strikes Down California’s One-Gun-Per-Month Law In Major SAF Victory

In a victory for Second Amendment advocates, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today unanimously affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners, ...
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9th Circuit: Key provision in California online safety law violates First Amendment

A federal appeals court has ruled unconstitutional a key provision in a California online safety law that would have required news organizations to restrict access to public-interest journalism on ...