United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Chu v. Commodoties Futures Trading Commission

Evidence, Administrative Law
In an investor's petition for review of an order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), determining that an independent commodity trading...

Sialoi v. City of San Diego

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law alleging, among other things, unlawful arrest and detention, illegal search, and excessive...

Carrillo-Carrillo v. Coursey

Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
Dismissal of state prisoner's federal petition for habeas corpus relief from sentence and conviction for no contest plea to racketeering, is reversed...

Farkas v. Williams

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action brought by a civil-service employee under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), against...

Rich v. Shrader

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, ERISA
In an employment dispute asserting claims under ERISA and California state law, the District Court's judgment in favor of defendants is affirmed...

Castaic Partners II, LLP v. DACA Castaic, LLP

Bankruptcy Law
In a bankruptcy case, in which the bankruptcy courted granted a party's motion for relief from the automatic bankruptcy stay so that it could proceed...

Kelly v. Wengler

Civil Rights, Sanctions, Criminal Law & Procedure, Attorney's Fees
In a putative class action brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, alleging that defendants staffed the Idaho Corrections Center with an inadequate...

Timothy O. v. Paso Robles Unified School Dist.

Education Law
In an action brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. section 1400(c)(2), the District Court's judgment in...

Moyle v. Liberty Mut. Retirement Benefit Plan

Labor & Employment Law, ERISA
In a class action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, alleging that plaintiffs' new employer, which purchased their former employer,...

Edison v. US

Injury & Tort Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit brought two prisoners housed at Taft Correctional Institution in California's San Joaquin Valley, who...