On March 30, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dealt federal prosecutors yet another setback in the government’s two-year-long quest to hold onto millions of dollars in publishing assets belonging to veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, former owners…
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today vacated a lower court’s order halting a First Amendment challenge by ex-Backpage owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin to the federal government’s seizure of millions of…
During a 30-minute hearing in Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday, July 9, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals signaled that it would likely send a case involving the seizure of millions of dollars in publishing assets from…
Note: Please see update below regarding Tuesday’s hearing. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments at 9 a.m. on July 9 in Pasadena, Calif., on a First Amendment challenge to the federal government’s…
