United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

McNeal v. Adams

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a child molestation prosecution, the denial of petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus is affirmed where: 1) the state-court findings that...

Williams v. Ryan

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
In a capital habeas matter, the denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed in part where the trial court was not required to appoint a mental...

Edu v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) denial of petitioner's application for deferral of removal under the Convention...

Teposte v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissing petitioner's appeal of an Immigration Judge’s (IJ) order...

Gonzalez v. Arizona

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Immigration Law
In an action raising the questions whether Arizona Proposition 200 violated the Voting Rights Act, was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth or...

US v. Redlightning

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's conviction for murder on Native American land with premeditation and in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of sexual abuse is...

Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights v. San Francisco

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action by Catholics and a Catholic advocacy group against San Francisco on account of an official resolution denouncing their church and...

La Asociacion de Trabajadores de Lake Forest v. Lake Forest

Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights
In an action alleging that the City of Lake Forest police ran all the day laborers looking for work off the public sidewalks, the dismissal of the...

Sanford v. MemberWorks, Inc.

Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action under the Unordered Merchandise Statute, as well as state-law claims for conversion, unjust enrichment, and fraud, arising out of...

US v. Berry

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a robbery and bombing prosecution, the denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where: 1) Jackson allowed a district court to treat a 28...