United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

In re Jacobson

Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In bankruptcy proceedings in which the trustee filed a complaint claiming that certain money and property belonged to the bankruptcy estate, the...

Noble v. Adams

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The district court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus is vacated and the case remanded to the district court to determine whether a...

Cross v. Sisto

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The district court's denial of a petition for habeas corpus is reversed, where the petition was not barred by the one-year statute of limitations...

US v. Austin

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a case in which a defendant entered into a plea agreement and was sentenced to 17 years in prison, the district court's grant of a motion to reduce...

Balla v. Idaho

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case in which a law firm sought an award of fees under the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act in part for representing a class of prisoners in...

In re Pacific Pictures Corp.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property
In a suit by the company that owns intellectual property rights to the Superman character against a movie producer-attorney, claiming that he...

Gonzalez v. Arizona

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a challenge to Arizona Proposition 200, which contained a registration provision and a polling place provision requiring certain forms of...

Stengel v. Medtronic Inc.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a suit for injuries sustained by one of the plaintiffs from his use of a pain pump manufactured by the defendant, the district court's dismissal of...

US v. Swank

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a case in which a defendant pled guilty to abusive sexual contact with his wife's niece, who was staying temporarily in their home, a two-level...

US v. Goodbear

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence for assault resulting in substantial bodily injury and misprision of felony is: 1) affirmed in part, where a) the district court properly...