July 13, 2017
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a $122.5 million California wildfire settlement, saying that alleged improper tweets by a federal judge were not grounds for recusal.
May 17, 2017
Sierra Pacific Industries Inc. asked a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday to set aside a $122.5 million settlement over a 2007 forest fire, arguing that the lower court had contravened its own order by considering facts and not legal arguments before ruling against a motion alleging that prosecutors framed the company.
May 05, 2016
Sierra Pacific Industries on Wednesday continued urging the Ninth Circuit to reverse a district court's refusal to unwind a $122.5 million settlement over a severe California wildfire, saying claims that the deal came about from prosecutors' "egregious" fraud and misconduct cannot be ignored.
February 02, 2016
California's attorney general ripped into her fellow state attorneys general Monday over their brief supporting a bid to unwind a $122.5 million wildfire settlement, telling the Ninth Circuit that she finds their assertions that government lawyers and investigators ignored their duty to justice offensive.
December 22, 2015
The federal government on Monday urged the Ninth Circuit to prohibit logging company Sierra Pacific from introducing video evidence that allegedly links a federal judge to improper tweets about a $122.5 million wildfire settlement into a battle to undo the deal.
December 15, 2015
Sierra Pacific urged the Ninth Circuit to allow the logging company to submit a copy of YouTube videos recently made private by a federal judge accused of improperly tweeting about a $122.5 million wildfire settlement, saying the evidence clearly shows the judge owns the Twitter account.
December 01, 2015
Logging company Sierra Pacific Industries told the Ninth Circuit that a federal judge's tweets about a $122.5 million wildfire settlement are so out of line that he should not be allowed to have anything to do with the case if it's remanded.
November 17, 2015
Five state attorneys general Monday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a California federal judge's refusal to unwind a $122.5 million settlement over a devastating wildfire, arguing he ignored plausible allegations of serious misconduct by federal prosecutors in pursuing the deal.