United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Bryan v. McPherson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on defendant-officer's use of a taser on plaintiff at a traffic stop, denial of summary judgment based on...

Aden 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 BIA properly required corroboration of...

US v. Bays

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's drug and firearm possession sentence is affirmed where a pardon defendant received for a prior state offense did not constitute an...

Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Ctr. v. US Bureau of Land Mgmt.

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action against the Bureau of Land Management seeking a preliminary injunction against a timber sale, a grant of attorney's fees to plaintiff is...

California Alliance of Child & Fam. Servs. v. Allenby

Administrative Law, Family Law, Government Benefits, Government Law
In an action challenging California's scheme of reimbursement to foster care homes, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where California was...

Pelayo-Garcia v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner from the U.S., the petition is granted where petitioner's prior offense of "unlawful...

US v. Washington

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law
In an Indian tribe's appeal from the district court's denial of the tribe's Rule 60(b) motion to reopen the judgment in a matter in which the tribe...