United States Ninth Circuit - August 2009 Opinion Summaries

Hilton v. Hallmark Cards

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a trademark infringement and state tort action by Paris Hilton against the greeting card company Hallmark for using her image and catchphrase in a...

Pacific Northwest Generating Coop. v. Bonneville Power Admin.

Administrative Law, Public Utilities
In a petition for review of Respondent power administration's decision to execute an amended contract with an aluminum company, agreeing to make a...

US v. Gallenardo

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's child pornography conviction and sentence are affirmed, where 1) intrastate possession of child pornography may affect interstate...

Yokoyama v. Midland Nat'l. Life Ins. Co.

Class Actions, Insurance Law
In a class action claiming that an insurance company marketed annuities through deceptive practices in violation of Hawaii's Deceptive Practices Act,...

Bauman v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In an action against DaimlerChrysler based on human rights violations allegedly committed by Mercedes Benz Argentina, its subsidiary, in Argentina...

US v. Guzman-Mata

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence for illegally reentering the U.S. is affirmed where a conviction under 8 U.S.C. section 1324(a)(1) is categorically an "alien...

Suever v. Connell

Asset Forfeiture, Class Actions, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action by a putative class of persons whose financial assets escheated to the California Controller's Office pursuant to California's Unclaimed...

Craig v. Educational Cred. Mgmt. Corp.

Bankruptcy Law, Education Law
In an appeal from a bankruptcy court order declining to discharge debtor's student loan in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. section 523(a)(8) based on undue...

Prakash v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner from the U.S., the petition is denied where convictions for solicitation to commit...

US v. Cardenas-Mendoza

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's drug conviction is affirmed where the district court abused its discretion under the Jencks Act when it did not strike the testimony of a...