| Description | Date | Docket # |
| TAHOE-SIERRA PRES. COUNCIL, INC. v. TAHOE REG'L PLANNING AGENCY United States Ninth Circuit Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate A challenge to a regional planning agency's regional plan stems from the same transactional nucleus of facts as an action previously dismissed on... |
02/28/2003 | 00-16660 |
| LEWIS v. LEWIS United States Ninth Circuit Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus In rejecting a Batson motion, a California appeals court committed constitutional error by not rectifying the trial court's failure to conduct the... |
02/28/2003 | 01-56927 |
| FERGUSON v. PALMATEER United States Ninth Circuit Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus 28 U.S.C. section 2244(d)(1) is not a per se violation of the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution, and the literal wording of that statute does... |
02/28/2003 | 01-36143 |
| SKAARUP v. CITY OF N. LAS VEGAS United States Ninth Circuit Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law Adverse employment actions did not abridge a fire marshall's exercise of free speech, and a reclassification of his position did not amount to... |
02/28/2003 | 01-17364 |
| MEREDITH v. STATE OF OREGON United States Ninth Circuit Civil Procedure Where resolution of a Younger abstention issue is necessary to ensure meaningful review of a grant of preliminary injunction, the court has pendent... |
02/27/2003 | 01-35869 |
| EIE GUAM CORP. v. THE LONG TERM CREDIT BANK OF JAPAN, LTD. United States Ninth Circuit Civil Procedure, International Law A voluntarily joined foreign sovereign may remove a case from a territorial court to a federal district court, when the foreign sovereign obtained the... |
02/27/2003 | 02-16214, 02-16259 |
| US v. MCNEIL United States Ninth Circuit Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Tax Law Evidence established that defendant acted with requisite intent, to support a bank fraud conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 1344(2), arising from... |
02/26/2003 | 02-30138 |
| HO v. NEWLAND United States Ninth Circuit Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus A 28 U.S.C. section 2254 habeas petitioner was deprived of the constitutional right to have a jury decide every element of a second-degree murder... |
02/26/2003 | 01-16823 |
| ARIZONA RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMM. v. BAYLESS United States Ninth Circuit Constitutional Law, Elections, Media Law A state statute that regulated political speech in the days before an election, by requiring certain notice prior to distribution, violated the First... |
02/25/2003 | 01-17065 |
| BROAM v. BOGAN United States Ninth Circuit Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure The interests of justice would be served by allowing 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claimants, whose convictions were overturned, to further amend their... |
02/25/2003 | 01-17246 |