9th Circuit Sets Oral Argument For Row Over Regulators’ Conservatorship Of Insurer

Mealey's (September 28, 2021, 8:28 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a Sept. 26 docket entry, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals filed notice of oral argument scheduled for Dec. 7 in a suit alleging that California state regulators abused their authority in obtaining a conservatorship against a workers’ compensation insurance carrier; the appeal followed a federal judge in California’s dismissal of the suit upon determining that the prior exclusive jurisdiction rule and abstention under Younger v. Harris apply....