United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

N. County Comms. Corp. v. Cal. Catalog & Tech.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Contracts
In an action by a competitive local exchange carrier alleging that defendants, as commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) providers, failed to properly...

Nunez v. Holder

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner from the U.S. based on his commission of a crime of moral turpitude, the petition is...

Electronic Frontier Found. v. Office of the Dir. of Nat'l Intelligence

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Government Law
In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action involving information on discussions between telecommunications carriers and the government over the...

US v. Vongxay

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed where: 1) 18 U.S.C. section 922(g)(1) does not violate defendant's...

Schultz v. US

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Debt Collection, Judgement Enforcement, Securities Law, Sentencing
In an appeal from the district court's denial of appellant's motion to intervene as of right in a securities fraud action, the order is affirmed where...

Bull v. San Francisco

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action making a Fourth Amendment facial challenge to San Francisco's policy requiring a strip search of all arrestees who...

Mansourian v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Sports Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and Title IX action against a university arising after the university required women on the co-ed wrestling team to...

Yokoyama v. Midland Nat'l Life Ins. Co.

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an action alleging deceptive representations in defendant's brochures, which promoted certain annuities as appropriate for seniors, a denial of...

Waggy v. Spokane County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that county prosecuting attorneys and a county violated plaintiff's constitutional right to be free from...

Omstead v. Dell, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a proposed class action alleging that Dell designed, manufactured, and sold defective notebook computers, dismissal of the action for failure to...