SAN FRANCISCO — It doesn't involve Internet monitoring or GPS tracking, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sounds poised to push back for the second time this year on warrantless government snooping.

On Monday an en banc panel of the court sounded ready to strike down a Los Angeles ordinance that gives police explicit power to search hotel registries without a warrant or reasonable suspicion of a crime.

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