Complex sentence: The ruling turned out to be a 4-4 tie and therefore, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision against Tsakopoulos was automatically affirmed.
Split into simpler sentences: The ruling turned out to be a 4-4 tie. Because of the tie, the ruling against Tsakopoulos by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' was automatically affirmed.