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...

Jeffredo v. Macarro

Habeas Corpus, Indian Law
In a habeas petition under the Indian Civil Rights Act, claiming that petitioners' disenrollment by members of the Pechanga Tribal Council was...

In the matter of: Harris

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts
In an action by a Chapter 7 debtor alleging that the bankruptcy trustee and her agents breached a contract that was entered into during the course of...

Hamazaspyan v. Holder

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's dismissal of petitioner's appeal from an immigration judge's denial of his motion to reopen an in absentia...

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...