"ABA Slams Efforts To Break Up 9th Circ."

Law360 reports here that "The American Bar Association House of Delegates, convened for the group's annual meeting in New York, voted Monday to formally oppose recent federal legislation aimed at breaking up the Ninth Circuit."

In a voice vote with no noted opposition, the ABA House of Delegates approved Resolution 104, which reaffirmed its long-running opposition to congressional efforts to divide the Ninth Circuit and create a new Twelfth Circuit. The vote comes on the heels of a renewed surge of interest in such a division, with five GOP-backed bills introduced since the start of the year that aim to do just that.

Most of the current proposals to break up the jurisdiction would group California with Guam, Hawaii and the Northern Mariana Islands in its current home, though one proposal would leave California flying solo as all the other states and territories are placed in a new Twelfth Circuit.

Appellate tidbits: See here for a 9th Cir. opinion dismissing a debtors' appeal from a district court's order vacating a bankruptcy court's chapter 132 plan; the order was not final and appealable because it did not finally dispose of a discrete dispute within the bankruptcy case.
And see here for a decision from 2/2 that "conditionally reverses and remands with directions" -- not your usual dismiss/affirm/or reverse disposition.