(Subscription required) Judge Milan Smith Jr. of the Ninth Circuit and U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar provided perspective on the swelling debate around nationwide injunctions during a panel discussion sponsored by the Berkeley Judicial Institute.

An en banc panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday that the application of a federal law criminalizing the possession of a firearm by a felon to a man with no violent criminal history does not run afoul of the Constitution under the analytical framework to be applied for Second Amendment cases following U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, drawing dissent.

Chief Justice John Roberts described the rule of law as “endangered” and warned against “trashing the justices,” but speaking in Washington Monday he didn’t point fingers directly at President Donald Trump or his allies for publicly excoriating judges who’ve ruled against aspects of Trump’s agenda.

Div. Five of this district’s Court of Appeal held Friday that an attorney and associated law firms have waived their contractual right to arbitrate claims against them by having actively pursued litigation against the defendants in court—requesting a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, propounding discovery, and indicating a demand for a jury trial—and only filing the request after a cross-complaint was filed against them.