[2] On March 25, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Murguia to a fill a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that was created when Judge Michael Daly Hawkins assumed senior status.

[7] On March 14, 2011, Murguia acquitted Elton Simpson of making a false statement to federal agents involving terrorism, and released him on probation with a minor fine for lesser charges.

[8] Simpson had allegedly lied to FBI agents about his intent to travel to Somalia to join up with terrorist groups to kill non-Muslims, but Murguia declined to enhance his sentence based on the government's evidence.

Four years later, Simpson was one of two terrorists who attacked a free speech event in Texas, injuring an unarmed security guard and being killed in the process.

[9] Murguia recused herself from the federal racial profiling case against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in February 2009.

[12] In 2018, this en banc case held that Jesse Andrew did not receive proper constitutionally granted counsel during the first phase of the legal system.

[13] Initially, Andrews was raised in a segregated and poverty-stricken area of Mobile, Alabama at a school that has since been shuttered based on their violations of the Eighth Amendment.

[14] The violation concerned the actions that the government took that disabused the plaintiffs’ rights of due process before their status was terminated.

Code § 51.9(a)(1)(F) (1996), the panel headed by Murguia ruled that their relationship constituted by the statute and therefore Weinstein was suited to use his leverage to allegedly abuse the plaintiff.