United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

WAYNE v. DHL WORLDWIDE EXPRESS

Commercial Law, Insurance Law, Transportation
The federal Airline Deregulation Act does not preempt a state action alleging that an air shipment company sold shipment insurance at excessive prices...

CORTEZ v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Civil Rights, Government Law
Because a county sheriff acts as the final policymaker for the county in establishing and implementing policies and procedures for safekeeping of...

STATE OF HAWAII v. FED. EMERGENCY MGMT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Insurance Law
The state of Hawaii acted in a commercially reasonable manner in determining the amount of insurance proceeds to accept for disputed repairs after a...

US v. ORELLANA-BLANCO

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A law enforcement memorandum of an interview fell within the criminal case exclusion to the hearsay exception for public records, and was not an...

KUKJE HWAJAE INS. CO., LTD. v. M/V HYUNDAI LIBERTY

Admiralty, Commercial Law, Contracts
An owner of cargo, who contracted with an intermediary non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) to arrange for carriage, was bound by a...

PAULSON v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO

Constitutional Law
After an injunction prohibited a city from maintaining a 43-foot high cross in a public park, the city's sale of the cross to a private entity was...

NEWDOW v. US CONGRESS

Constitutional Law, Education Law
The addition of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag (via 1954 federal statute), and a school district policy of teacher-led...

SUZUKI MOTOR CORP. v. CONSUMERS UNION OF US, INC.

Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action by an automobile manufacturer for product disparagement, based on a story in a consumer magazine that rated its vehicle "not acceptable",...

PAZCOGUIN v. RADCLIFFE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In an appeal from an order of deportation finding an alien excludable from the U.S., possession of a visa did not foreclose the propriety of a "second...

CHAO v. BREMERTON METAL TRADES COUNCIL

Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
A joint council is a labor organization within the meaning of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Act), and the Act's requirements for...