United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Oliner v. Kontrabecki

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
The district court's order denying the parties' joint request to seal the record of the bankruptcy proceedings is affirmed, where: 1) the district...

Johnson v. Consumerinfo.com

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In putative class actions alleging defendant violated various California consumer protection laws, the consolidated appeals of putative class action...

Narayanan v. British Airways

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Transportation
The district court's dismissal of an action for damages under the Montreal Convention, alleging that the denial of oxygen aboard an international...

Family PAC v. Ferguson

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
The district court properly awarded attorneys' fees to plaintiff for the previous appeal in which plaintiff had prevailed in part, in a lawsuit...

Haro v. City of Los Angeles

Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for plaintiffs, fire department dispatchers and aeromedical technicians employed by defendant-city, in an action under the Fair Labor...

Islamic Shura Council of Southern California v. FBI

Sanctions
The district court's order granting plaintiff's motion for Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(c) sanctions against defendant is reversed, where: 1)...

Alaska Stock, LLC v. Houghton Mifflin

Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
The district court's dismissal of a copyright infringement action alleging that defendant exceeded the number of publications of stock photos that it...

Robert Murray v. Schriro

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The district court properly denied a habeas corpus petition challenging petitioner's conviction and capital sentence for murder, where: 1) the state...

US v. Cabrera-Gutierrez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's conviction and sentence for failing to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Nationality Act (SORNA) are: 1) affirmed in part,...

US v. Cortes

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's convictions for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, conspiracy to affect commerce by robbery...