United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Progressive Gulf Ins. Co. v. Faehnrich

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an action by an insurer seeking a declaration that the family member exclusion in an auto insurance policy barred recovery for defendants arising...

US v. Lopez-Velasquez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a prosecution for illegal reentry, the dismissal of the indictment is reversed where an immigration judge's (IJ) duty was limited to informing an...

Wild Fish Conservancy v. Salazar

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In a challenge to a Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) biological opinion addressing the effects of the operations of the Leavenworth National Fish...

Nat'l. Ass'n. of Home Builders v. San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Ctrl. Dist.

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action claiming that an air pollution district's rule requiring development sites to reduce the amount of pollutants they emit was preempted by...

Affiliated FM Ins. Co. v. LTK Consulting Servs., Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
In an action asserting that defendant provided negligent design advice to the Seattle Monorail System that resulted in fire damage, summary judgment...

Sacora v. Thomas

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a habeas corpus action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 2241 challenging the policies by which the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) placed inmates in community...

Gilman v. Schwarzenegger

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In an action by eight California life-term prisoners who represented a class of similarly situated California prisoners, alleging that Proposition 9,...

Goldberg v. Pac. Indemn. Co.

Civil Procedure
In defendants' appeal from the district court's denial of their request for expert witness fees and double costs pursuant to Arizona Rule of Civil...

Carijano v. Occidental Petro. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law
In an action by members of the Peruvian Achuar indigenous group dependent for their existence upon the rainforest lands and waterways along the river,...

US v. Rivera-Gomez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
Defendant's illegal reentry sentence is vacated where the district court erred in determining that defendant's state resisting-arrest conviction could...