United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Phillips

Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In defendant's conviction for wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering, in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain, for personal use, funds...

Resisting Envtl. Destruction on Indigenous Lands v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency

Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law
An environmental group's petition for review of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision granting two air permits authorizing exploratory...

In re: Verifone Holdings, Inc. Sec. Litig.

Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In investors' securities fraud class action in connection with a restatement of financial results of the company in which the investors had purchased...

Barnes-Wallace v. City of San Diego

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a civil rights suit against a city, claiming that leases of land by the city to the Desert Pacific Council, a nonprofit corporation chartered by...

US v. Yepez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In defendants' convictions for importing methamphetamine, a district judge's imposition of a mandatory minimum sentence on one defendant is affirmed,...

US v. Valdavinos-Torres

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
Defendant's conviction and sentence for illegal reentry are affirmed where: 1) under the modified categorical approach, defendant's predicate...

Metro One Telecommunications, Inc. v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Tax Law
The judgment of the Tax Court that petitioner was not entitled to tax relief under section 56 of the Internal Revenue Code (Relief Rule), which...

US v. Bustos-Ochoa

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Defendant's conviction for illegal reentry after deportation is affirmed where an alien may not collaterally attack his removal order by claiming that...

Washington Shoe Co. v. A-Z Sporting Goods, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Copyright
In a copyright infringement action concerning certain styles of boots, district court's dismissal of a Washington company's action against an Arkansas...

Managed Pharmacy Care v. Sebelius

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
In a suit brought by various providers and beneficiaries of Medi-Cal against the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the...