United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Robinson v. Fletcher

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
In multidistrict litigation (MDL) involving the MERS System, a private electronic database that records the ownership of and servicing rights in home...

US v. Quintero-Junco

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence for illegal reentry after deportation in a case in which the District Court applied enhancements pursuant to U.S.S.G. section 2L...

ReadyLink Healthcare, Inc. v. State Compensation Insurance Fund

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Insurance Law
In an action challenging the Commissioner of the California Department of Insurance, the District Court's dismissal on abstention grounds is affirmed,...

US v. Goldtooth

Criminal Law & Procedure, Indian Law
Convictions on two counts of aiding and abetting robbery on the Navajo Nation, in violation of 18 U.S.C. sections 2111, 1153 and 2 are reversed where:...

Jiang v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a Board of Immigrant Appeals' denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture is...

Dixon v. Williams

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The district court's denial of a habeas corpus petition challenging petitioner's second degree murder conviction based on an alleged error in the jury...

Street Surfing, LLC v. Great American E & S Insurance Co.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-insurer in a diversity insurance coverage action is affirmed, where: 1) plaintiff-insured was sued in the...

USACM Liquidating Trust v. Deloitte & Touche

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Summary judgment in favor of defendant, the debtor's former outside auditor, on claims brought by plaintiff, a bankruptcy litigation trust, alleging...

Von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of plaintiff's action claiming that she was the rightful owner of two paintings forcibly purchased by the Nazis from her deceased husband's...

Gabriel v. Alaska Electrical Pension Fund

Remedies, Contracts, ERISA
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-pension fund and other defendants on plaintiff's claims that defendant-fund abused its discretion in denying...