Mealey's (October 12, 2020, 1:58 PM EDT) -- PORTLAND, Ore. — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 9 denied a motion for an emergency stay by two federal agencies in a putative class complaint by journalists and legal observers who claim that they have been targeted by police and federal agents while covering protests in Portland, writing that the agencies have not shown a likelihood of success on the merits or sufficiently showed irreparable harm if the preliminary injunction was “not stayed pending a decision on the merits of their appeal” (Index Newspapers LLC, et al. v. United States Marshals Service, et al., No. 20-35739, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 32103)....