United States Ninth Circuit - April 2007 Opinion Summaries

Jarvis v. K-2 Inc.

Contracts, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Media Law
In a copyright infringement action brought by a professional photographer who created numerous photographic slides for defendant-sporting goods maker,...

Wolfe v. George

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
A challenge to the California vexatious litigant statute on numerous constitutional grounds is rejected.

Rosenbaum v. City & County of San Francisco

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a civil rights action brought by evangelists who preached a Christian evangelical message in the streets and parks of San Francisco with amplified...

Villegas v. City of Gilroy

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action for damages alleging violations of plaintiffs' First Amendment constitutional rights incident to their exclusion from a city's garlic...

Earth Island Inst. v. Hogarth

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Evidence
No judicial deference to agency discretion as to methodology is appropriate when the agency ignores its own statistical methodology in its studies. In...

Nunes v. Ramirez-Palmer

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus is affirmed where: 1) 1) a state appellate court's ruling upholding the constitutionality of...

Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. Lohn

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
In a dispute over whether the federal government's policy for listing killer whales under the Endangered Species Act is invalid, a district court...

In re: Brown

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Sanctions
A minute entry that merely grants summary judgment, without more, does not become a final, appealable judgment just because it has been signed by the...

Sherman v. Harbin

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
A bankruptcy court considering the feasibility of a plan of reorganization under 11 U.S.C. section 1129(a)(11) must evaluate the possible effect of a...

Gambini v. Total Renal Care

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action setting forth Family Medical Leave Act and state discrimination law claims, denial of employee's motion seeking judgment as a matter of...