United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
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Federal court - Appellate - Jurisdiction - District courts - Districts
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- District of Alaska
- District of Arizona
- Central, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of California
- District of Hawaii
- District of Idaho
- District of Montana
- District of Nevada
- District of Oregon
- Eastern and Western Districts of Washington
- District Court of Guam
- District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands
It also has appellate jurisdiction over the following territorial courts:
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The Ninth Circuit is by far the largest of the thirteen courts of appeals, with 28 active judgeships. The court's regular meeting places are Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Pasadena, but panels of the court occasionally travel to hear cases in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Pacific territories over which it has jurisdiction. Its headquarters are in San Francisco.
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Courts of appeals - Seattle - Portland - San Francisco - Pasadena - Alaska - Hawaii
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NY Times editorial on laptop seizures by Homeland Security
An editorial in today's NY Times asks Congress to make Homeland Security stop seizing the laptops and phones of US citizens returning from overseas travel. Like that will ever happen. There have been widespread reports of the government searching ? and often seizing ? laptops, BlackBerrys, iPhones and other portable electronic devices at airports. It is not clear how often these searches occur, and the government will not say. The Association of Corporate Travel Executives says that of 100 people who responded to a survey it conducted this year, 7 said they had had a laptop or other electronic device seized. ... Laptop owners rightly complain that the program violates the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. Their legal objections, however, have not fared well. In April, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco upheld a laptop search at Los Angeles International Airport. After this disappointing decision, Congress needs to act. Link...
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