United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Millender v. County of L.A.

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action against the County of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and several individual members of the Sheriff's...

Daas v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) finding petitioner ineligible for cancellation of removal on the...

Rodriguez v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order that petitioner was removable pursuant to 8 U.S.C. section 1227(a)(2)(B)(i) based on his 2004 conviction...

Hurd v. Terhune

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a first-degree murder prosecution, the denial of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where the state trial court improperly admitted as...

Spencer v. World Vision, Inc.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by employees of a religious organization, summary judgment for...

US v. Havelock

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's convictions on six counts of mailing threatening communications are reversed where 18 U.S.C. section 876(c) required that the mailed item...

Singh v. Napolitano

Administrative Law, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
The denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where the Attorney General's decision in Compean II, which affirmed the Ninth Circuit's...

US v. Langer

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's cocaine distribution conspiracy sentence is affirmed where, in the absence of any evidence suggesting that defendant's rap sheet contained...

US v. Farias

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's conviction for attempted entry after deportation is reversed where defendant was denied his Sixth Amendment right to self-representation.

Ruiz-Diaz v. US

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In an action by a class of alien beneficiaries of special immigrant religious worker visa petitions, and organizations that employ religious workers,...