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U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit — Order and Amended Opinion, United States v. Holmes and Balwani (Captured Public Document)

A read-only presentation of an independently captured public federal appellate opinion. Counterpedia presents the captured artifact and its provenance chain; it does not restate the opinion's holdings as findings and asserts nothing beyond what the provenance record carries.

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A read-only presentation of an independently captured public federal appellate opinion. Counterpedia presents the captured artifact and its provenance chain; it does not restate the opinion's holdings as findings and asserts nothing beyond what the provenance record carries.
Edition
TH-S09-ED-0001
Sources
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Verification
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Record standing

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Admission standing
Current
Standing history
1 recorded admission event
Technical standing checks
record id
TH-S09
render-time eligibility flag
publication_eligible: false
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  • Corpus lifecycle is "admitted", which is not yet renderable.
  • Anchor resolution is not applicable to this record.
  • Citation span TH-S09-SPAN-0001 is unverified; render-time eligibility excludes claims backed only by unverified spans.

Retained admission ledger

  1. ADM-EVT-public:TH-S09-0001 · current · 2026-08-19

    Owner decision (this session): admit a read-only presentation of an independently captured public federal appellate opinion — the Ninth Circuit's Order and Amended Opinion in United States v. Holmes; United States v. Balwani (22-10312), issued December 22, 2025. Captured bytes (360,184; sha256:b503e976b57ed9c674c8ba263268c2dbb39afc96247de2d9186a5fe754b93fee) carry a sha256 digest with a named external-document referent (the source-reference URN). Acquisition used counterpedia-acquisition HttpFetcher (arcs-amnesiac PR #124, merged); ARCS Verify full_artifact_chain.v0_1 passed (arcs-verify PR #41, merged); authenticity_verified and signature_verified are not_evaluated per arcs-verify design. This admission is a presentation decision only; it asserts no authenticity, no signature validity, and no verification outcome beyond the separate capture, SRS, verification, and custody acts already recorded.

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  • This item → Editorial paraphrase: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order and amended opinion in December 2025 addressing the consolidated criminal appeals of two defendants convicted in connection with a blood-testing company. This span is a neutral summary, not a verbatim quotation of the opinion. · Relevant passage

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U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit — Order and Amended Opinion, United States v. Holmes and Balwani (Captured Public Document)

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  • A read-only presentation of an independently captured public federal appellate opinion. Counterpedia presents the captured artifact and its provenance chain; it does not restate the opinion's holdings as findings and asserts nothing beyond what the provenance record carries.
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What the record says

Overview

This record presents a federal appellate opinion issued in December 2025 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the consolidated criminal appeals of Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani, arising from their convictions related to the Theranos blood-testing enterprise. Counterpedia presents the independently captured document and its provenance chain; it does not restate the opinion's holdings as established facts outside their judicial posture and takes no position on any matter beyond what is carried by the capture record.1

Provenance and scope

The underlying document was independently retrieved from the Ninth Circuit's public opinion datastore. This record structurally carries the capture's content digest, its downstream source-reference identifier, and a content-addressed custody manifest digest — recorded in the source's capture-integrity block below. It does not itself carry an independent verification report; verification, where performed, is a separate act recorded elsewhere. This paragraph is a Counterpedia provenance observation, not a claim supported by the cited source. Admission to this read-only pool is a presentation decision recorded by the corpus owner and establishes no authenticity, no signature validity, and no verification outcome.

Technical details
record id
TH-S09
current edition
TH-S09-ED-0001

How we know

  1. Ninth Circuit Order and Amended Opinion (captured public document)

    Independently captured public appellate opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Presented as a provenance artifact; not quoted verbatim.

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    • “Editorial paraphrase: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order and amended opinion in December 2025 addressing the consolidated criminal appeals of two defendants convicted in connection with a blood-testing company. This span is a neutral summary, not a verbatim quotation of the opinion.”
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    TH-S09-SRC-0001
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    TH-S09-SPAN-0001
    TH-S09-FRAG-0001 · unverified

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  • Editorial paraphrase: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order and amended opinion in December 2025 addressing the consolidated criminal appeals of two defendants convicted in connection with a blood-testing company. This span is a neutral summary, not a verbatim quotation of the opinion.

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  1. Ninth Circuit Order and Amended Opinion (captured public document)

    Independently captured public appellate opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Presented as a provenance artifact; not quoted verbatim.

    Inspect sourceOpens the existing public Source page. Navigation only — it adds no verification or support.

    • “Editorial paraphrase: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order and amended opinion in December 2025 addressing the consolidated criminal appeals of two defendants convicted in connection with a blood-testing company. This span is a neutral summary, not a verbatim quotation of the opinion.”
    Technical details
    source id
    TH-S09-SRC-0001
    capture hash
    sha256:b503e976b57ed9c674c8ba263268c2dbb39afc96247de2d9186a5fe754b93fee
    TH-S09-SPAN-0001
    TH-S09-FRAG-0001 · unverified

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Admission lineage

terminal: current

  1. current

    Event details
    recorded at
    2026-08-19
    why
    Owner decision (this session): admit a read-only presentation of an independently captured public federal appellate opinion — the Ninth Circuit's Order and Amended Opinion in United States v. Holmes; United States v. Balwani (22-10312), issued December 22, 2025. Captured bytes (360,184; sha256:b503e976b57ed9c674c8ba263268c2dbb39afc96247de2d9186a5fe754b93fee) carry a sha256 digest with a named external-document referent (the source-reference URN). Acquisition used counterpedia-acquisition HttpFetcher (arcs-amnesiac PR #124, merged); ARCS Verify full_artifact_chain.v0_1 passed (arcs-verify PR #41, merged); authenticity_verified and signature_verified are not_evaluated per arcs-verify design. This admission is a presentation decision only; it asserts no authenticity, no signature validity, and no verification outcome beyond the separate capture, SRS, verification, and custody acts already recorded.
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    sha256:b503e976b57ed9c674c8ba263268c2dbb39afc96247de2d9186a5fe754b93fee

This record carries no branch-lifecycle transitions. Any admission-lineage events above remain standing history, not a prose-edit log.

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