United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Chandler v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Remedies
In an action seeking car rental costs from an insurer arising out of an auto accident, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where, under California...

Service Employees Int'l. Union v. US

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In an appeal of the IRS's assessment of penalties for the late filing of a return, a district court's order reducing the assessed penalty is reversed...

Alcazar v. Corp. of the Catholic Archbishop of Seattle

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In an action seeking pay for the overtime hours plaintiff worked as a seminarian in a Catholic church in Washington, dismissal of the action is...

Tamang v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the denial of petitioner's asylum application, the petition is denied where: 1) the ineffectiveness of petitioner's former...

US v. Maggi

Criminal Law & Procedure, Indian Law
Defendants' convictions for, respectively, sexual abuse of a minor and assault are vacated where 1) there was no evidence that one defendant had any...

Service Employees Int'l Union v. Nat'l Union of Healthcare Workers

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an action by a parent and local affiliate union seeking injunctive relief to obtain restoration of properties it alleged were illegally taken by...

Morton v. Hall

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that prison officials' deliberate indifference contributed to a violent assault on plaintiff by inmates,...

Coyote Publishing, Inc. v. Miller

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a facial First Amendment challenge to restrictions on advertising by legal brothels, summary judgment for plaintiffs is reversed where the...

Stanley v. Schriro

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a capital habeas matter, a denial of the petition is affirmed in part where defense counsel's performance did not prejudice petitioner during the...

Newdow v. US Congress

Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action claiming that the national motto of the United States, "In God We Trust," and its inscription on the Nation's coins and currency,...