United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Landa

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence for violating the Controlled Substances Act is affirmed where: 1) the district court properly calculated defendant's criminal history score...

Campbell v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Labor & Employment Law
In a wage-and-hour class action brought by two-thousand unlicensed junior accountants against their employer, claiming it failed to pay them mandatory...

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals v. Sebelius

Administrative Law, Health Law
In an appeal of denial of plaintiff-hospitals' notice of program reimbursement for the fiscal year ending in 2001 to the Provider Reimbursement Review...

Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. v. Mortgage Guaranty Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a challenge to the district court's decision to remand this declaratory judgment action, involving mortgage insurance issues and arbitration, to...

Hayes v. County of San Diego

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death action involving the issue of whether law enforcement officers owe a duty of care in approaching a suicidal person as part of a...

Water Wheel Camp Recreational Area, Inc. v. LaRance

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate, Civil Procedure, Indian Law
In a regulatory and adjudicative dispute involving an Indian tribe's civil authority over non-Indians acting on tribal land, judgment of the district...

Prudential Locations LLC v. HUD

Administrative Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an FOIA dispute arising from an Exemption 6 redaction of documents requested by plaintiff, judgment of the district court in favor of the defendant...

Chudacoff v. University Medical Center of Southern Nevada

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Civil Rights
In a Section 1983 dispute arising from the from the suspension of plaintiff's medical staff privileges and involving against whom the plaintiff may...

Thalheimer v. City of San Diego

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Civil Procedure
In a First Amendment challenge to defendant-city's campaign finance laws, judgment of the district court upholding the defendant's pure contribution...

Ocampo v. Vail

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence, Evidence
In a petition for habeas relief from the conviction of petitioner for first-degree murder, judgment of the district court denying petition is reversed...