United States Ninth Circuit - January 2012 Opinion Summaries

Matter of Thorpe Insulation Co.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, the district court's affirmance of the bankruptcy court's orders denying a creditor's motion to compel...

US v. Casasola

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
In a prosecution of a Guatemalan citizen for illegal reentry into the United States after removal, the district court's denial of a motion to dismiss...

Matter of Meruelo Maddux Properties, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings involving the question whether the debtor was subject to the single asset real estate provisions of the...

Hutcherson v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration

Elder Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a declaratory judgment action seeking a declaration that Arizona's Medicaid agency had no right at all to recover from an annuity purchased by a...

AE v. County of Tulare

Injury & Tort Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In a suit arising from the sexual assault of a minor by his foster brother, alleging against the county that ran the foster home a claim under 42 USC...

Tyson v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In removal proceedings against a returning lawful permanent resident who was convicted in 1980 for importation of a controlled substance pursuant to a...

US v. McGowan

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a former state prison guard's appeal of his conviction and sentence stemming from his assault on two inmates, the district court's denial of the...

Oshodi v. Holder

Constitutional Law, Evidence, Immigration Law, Administrative Law
On a petition seeking review of the BIA's denial of a request for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT)...

US v. Gonzalez

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In Section 2255 habeas corpus proceedings alleging ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to call the petitioner's husband as a witness, in...

US v. Juvenile Male

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Indian Law
In consolidated appeals in which three juvenile defendants who pleaded true to a charge of aggravated sexual abuse with children challenged their...