United States Ninth Circuit - December 2005 Opinion Summaries

Abebe v. Gonzales

Health Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of an order denying petitioner's application for asylum and withholding of removal is granted where the immigration judge's...

Motley v. Parks

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Before conducting a warrantless search pursuant to a properly imposed parole condition, law enforcement officers must have probable cause to believe...

Masnauskas v. Gonzales

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a summary affirmance of a denial of petitioner's application for derivative adjustment of status and for suspension of...

US v. Fifield

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentences for being a felon in possession of a firearm and an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm are...

US v. Southwell

Criminal Law & Procedure
A jury must unanimously reject an affirmative defense before it can find a defendant guilty. Consequently, defendant's conviction for malicious use of...

Lee v. Walters

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Gaming Law, Remedies
Ruling that section Oregon Revised Statutes section 462.080(1), dealing with defendants' authority to issue exclusion orders from horse race courses,...

Webb v. Barnhart

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Decision denying plaintiff disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act is reversed where the administrative law judge improperly found...

Carpenter v. Mineta

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
Petition for review of an adverse decision on petitioner's challenge to a Federal Railroad Administration decision that petitioner was properly denied...

Brady v. Abbott Labs.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
Judgment for plaintiffs on negligence and nuisance claims regarding defendant's illegal removal of groundwater from their property and subsequent...

Espinoza-Matthews v. People of California

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Dismissal of defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus from his conviction on counts related to robbery as untimely is reversed since defendant...