United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

SISTRUNK v. ARMENAKIS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Petition for writ of habeas corpus was properly denied, where defendant's attempts to discredit and impeach witness testimony did not constitute...

MILLER v. GAMMIE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Health Law, Juvenile Law
State child services workers, involved in ongoing state court dependency proceedings, enjoy absolute immunity for the placement of a child in a foster...

US v. CORONA-SANCHEZ

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
Under the circumstances presented, a California state conviction for the petty theft of cigarettes and beer does not constitute an aggravated felony...

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. v. INTEL CORP.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, International Law, International Trade
A complaint before the European Commission's Directorate General of Competition, based on abuse of a dominant market position, was a "proceeding in a...

ARAGON v. REPUBLIC SILVER STATE DISPOSAL, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Though summary judgment for the employer in an employment discrimination case was improper at the "prima facie" stage, judgment is affirmed where a...

US v. BERT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In sentencing after conviction for possession with intent to distribute, district court erred in determining that omission of the phrase "detectable...

JARROW FORMULAS, INC. v. NUTRITION NOW, INC.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law
The doctrine of laches bars a manufacturer of nutritional supplements from suing its competitor for false advertising under the Lanham Act, including...

OKANOGAN SCH. DIST. #105 v. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUB. INSTRUCTION FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Environmental Law
School districts, as political subdivisions of a state, lack standing to challenge a state's reduction of funds paid to the district under 16 U.S.C....

JACOBS v. CBS BROAD., INC.

Civil Procedure, Contracts
A Writer's Guild of America investigation and determination that a claimant was not a participating-writer of a program, was a non-judicial proceeding...

US v. CAMPBELL

Attorney's Fees, Criminal Law & Procedure
Denial of attorney's fees was proper under the Hyde Amendment, 18 U.S.C. section 3006A, where appellant, an attorney indicted for mail fraud, whose...