United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Mindys Cosmetics, Inc. v. Dakar

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a trademark infringement action, a denial of defendant's California anti-SLAPP motion is affirmed where defendant made a prima facie showing that...

US v. Johnson

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Debt Collection
Defendants' mail fraud convictions are affirmed where: 1) defendants' courtroom behavior, although eccentric at times, would not have justified, let...

Lee v. Lampert

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a prosecution for sexual abuse of a child, a grant of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where: 1) there is no actual innocence exception...

Wilkinson v. Torres

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on alleged excessive force by the police involving a fatal shooting, a denial of summary judgment based on...

Kittel v. Thomas

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a habeas petition challenging a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) rule that categorically excluded from an early release incentive program prisoners whose...

Cortez-Pineda v. Holder

Administrative Law, Evidence, 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) denial...

In re: Cutera Sec. Litig.

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In a fraud-on-the-market suit claiming that Cutera, Inc. provided false and misleading revenue projections and failed to disclose material information...

Carlos-Blaza v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, White Collar Crime
In a petition for review of the immigration judge's order removing petitioner from the U.S. as an aggravated felon pursuant to 8 U.S.C. section...

Seaton v. Mayberg

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In an action claiming that defendants violated plaintiff's constitutional right to privacy by allowing psychologists to look at his records and to...

Retired Employees' Assn. v. Cty. of Orange

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Contracts, Government Law
In an action challenging Orange County's change to the structure of its health benefits under which the County began to split the pool of active and...