United States Ninth Circuit - November 2010 Opinion Summaries

Coleman v. Estes Express Lines, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In a class action based on multiple alleged violations of California wage and hour statutes, defendant's application to appeal from the district...

Rodriguez v. Lockheed Martin Corp.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Military Law
In an action arising from the premature explosion of a mortar cartridge manufactured by General Dynamics during an army training exercise in Hawaii,...

Coppinger-Martin v. Solis

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In action alleging that Nordstrom, Inc. violated the whistleblower-protection provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, by terminating petitioner's...

US v. Lightfoot

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In defendant's appeal from a denial of his motion to reduce his drug and firearm sentence, the order is affirmed where the district court had every...

Ready Transp., Inc. v. AAR Mfg., Inc.

Civil Procedure
In defendants' appeal from the district court's order denying defendants' motion to strike from its docket a confidential settlement agreement filed...

Maxwell v. Roe

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a murder prosecution, the denial of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where: 1) a state witness's false testimony was material and its...

Stahl v. US

Administrative Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
In an action for a refund of personal income taxes, summary judgment for the U.S. is reversed where plaintiff was an employee of the corporation at...

US v. Johnson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence for knowingly and intentionally distributing at least 50 grams of a mixture containing cocaine base is affirmed in part where...

Eklund v. City of Seattle Mun. Ct.

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging wrongful termination of plaintiff's employment by a municipal court and denial of due process of law in his termination, the...

Douglas v. Jacquez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a habeas petitioner's appeal from the district court's order vacating petitioner's murder conviction, but remanding the case to the state court...