United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Lizarraga-Tirado

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a case in which a Border Patrol agent testified that she contemporaneously recorded the coordinates of the defendant's arrest using a handheld GPS...

Walker v. Beard

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prisoner civil rights case, brought by an Aryan Christian Odinist who challenged the states classification of his as eligible to occupy a prison...

Seeboth v. Allenby

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of petition for habeas corpus relief is affirmed where California's Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA) setting forth a time within which to...

Marsh v. Colvin

Government Benefits
The district court's order affirming the Social Security Commissioner's denial of a claimant's application for benefits is vacated where: 1) the ALJ...

Washington v. Ryan

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Death row inmate's petition for habeas corpus relief is dismissed where it was untimely, and the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to...

Coquico v. Lynch

Immigration Law
Petition for review of the BIA's decision, finding petitioner's conviction for misdemeanor unlawful laser activity, in violation of California Pen....

Toor v. Lynch

Immigration Law
Petition for review of the BIA's decision, dismissing petitioner's appeal from an IJ's order denying his motion to reopen or reconsider, is granted...

Ruiz-Vidal v. Lynch

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Petition for review of the BIA's decision finding petitioner removable because he was convicted of possessing a controlled substance which could be...

Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. US Forest Serv.

Environmental Law
In an evnironmental action alleging the Forest Service violated the ESA when it decided not to reinitiate consultation after the Fish & Wildlife...

Pavonni v. Chrysler Group LLC

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a diversity action against Chrysler alleging strict products liability and other theories for liability for deaths that occurred in a 2008 Chrysler...