United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Whidbee v. Pierce County

Criminal Law & Procedure, Civil Rights
In a suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law against a sheriff's department, the district court's dismissal on statute of limitations...

Corona-Contreras v. Gruel

Legal Malpractice, Civil Procedure, Contracts
In action alleging breach of contract and legal malpractice, the district court's decision remanding the case to state court is reversed where the...

Santopietero v. Howell

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law
In an action in which a street performer-plaintiff and her friend, both dressed in 'sexy cop' costumes, posed with pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip...

Resh v. China Agritech, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Securities Law
In a putative class action alleging that defendant and its managers and directors violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the district court's...

US EEOC v. McClane Co., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, in an action challenging the EEOC's issuance of an administrative subpoena requesting 'pedigree information'...

Southeast Alaska Conservation Counsel v. US Forest Serv.

Environmental Law
In an action alleging that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Forest Management Act by approving either the Big Thorne logging project or...

Demetrius v. Transport Workers Union of Am.

Bankruptcy Law, Labor & Employment Law
In two consolidated actions brought under the Railway Labor Act, alleging a union's breach of the duty of fair representation in the decision to...

Olivas v. State of New Jersey

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action brought by a former prisoner, alleging violations of the Eighth Amendment and various state laws for injuries he suffered and the medical...

Spence v. Peters

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action in which plaintiff alleged that a Clark County detective deliberately fabricated evidence against him and continued...

Nordstrom v. Ryan

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 by an Arizona state prisoner alleging that the Arizona Department of Correction's policy and...