California's chief federal judges sounded the alarm at a forum Friday on the threat posed by huge caseloads and the failure of Congress to add more judgeships despite the state's population boom, with one jurist declaring, "We are in distress."
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a preliminary injunction stopping new lawsuits from being filed under California's Proposition 65 to obtain cancer warning labels on food and beverages containing the chemical acrylamide, citing the conflicting reports from reputable scientific sources about whether acrylamide in food spikes cancer risks.
A nonprofit fighting for acrylamide warning labels urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to scrap an injunction prohibiting private actors from filing new lawsuits seeking to enforce California's Proposition 65 warning requirement for acrylamide exposure, arguing the injunction is unconstitutional prior restraint.
A federal judge on Monday kept alive the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's pursuit of approximately $3.55 million in market manipulation penalties against Vitol Inc. and one of its traders, rejecting arguments that FERC's case was time-barred and meritless.
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