The 9th Circuit on Friday struck down an ordinance aimed at keeping day laborers from soliciting employment on the street, finding it facially unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds.

Munger, Tolles & Olson’s Paul Watford, an appellate litigator who has clerked for 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has emerged as a leading contender for a 9th Circuit nomination, say lawyers with knowledge of the process.

A sharply divided 9th Circuit panel has ruled that the VA denies due process rights to wounded troops by providing inadequate mental health care, which has led to a high suicide rate. In dissent, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski blasted the decision as an “Article III putsch.”

The internet has rendered the 1st Amendment obsolete, 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski says.

Lying about military honors isn’t right, but it isn’t a crime, the 9th Circuit has affirmed, in a ruling that prompted Chief Judge Alex Kozinski to write a colorful concurrence responding to the dissents.