The 9th Circuit has reversed a trial court’s dismissal of a Section 1981 claim by a doctor employed as a “contractor” at a hospital whose staff, he claimed, discriminated against him because of his race, sexual orientation, and perceived disability (erroneous belief he suffered from HIV/AIDS). The court also reversed rulings on the doctor’s claims […]
The 9th Circuit has released the names of the judges on the panel for the Anchorage calendar of August 4-7: Dorothy Nelson, Wallace Tashima, and Raymond Fisher.
A pilot who fished near his fly-in passengers on restricted federal property was charged with illegal guiding. U. S. Magistrate John Roberts has acquitted the pilot, after trial.
Roberts’ now-published opinion sets up the issue this way:
Kenneth A. Bellows is named in a two count Information with “conducting any kind of work activity or service [on National Forest […]
