United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Vegas Diamond Properties, LLC v. FDIC

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dissolving a Temporary Restraining Order on the ground that the anti-injunction provision of the...

US v. Russell

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court denying defendant's motion to suppress, judgment is affirmed where defendant voluntarily consented...

US v. Rodriguez-Ocampo

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
In an appeal from the district court's application of a sixteen-level sentencing enhancement, U.S.S.G. section 2L1.2(b), following defendant's...

Northern Plains Resources Council, Inc v. The Surface Transportation Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Construction, Environmental Law
In a challenge to respondent-Transportation Board's approval of certain railroad construction applications, orders are: 1) reversed in part where the...

In re: NSA Telecommunications Records Litigation

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions
In an appeal from the district court's dismissal of plaintiffs' complaint challenging Section 802 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)...

Jewel v. NSA

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiffs' complaint alleging that the government impermissibly engaged in warrantless...

Family PAC v. McKenna

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court preserving and stricking certain provisions of Washington State's election law as applied to PACs,...

Estrella v. Ollison

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In an appeal from the district court's denial of petitioner's application for habeas relief, judgment is affirmed where the incorrect imposition of an...

Balderas v. Countrywide Bank, NA

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In an appeal from a Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of the plaintiffs' Truth In Lending Act complaint, judgment is reversed where the complaint contained...

Orange County Dept. of Education v. Cal. Dept. of Education

Civil Procedure, Education Law, Government Law
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court granting respondent's motion for summary judgment in a dispute involving which of the parties bears...