United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Reed v. Gilbert

Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a First Amendment challenge to a municipal sign regulation that prohibited all signs without a permit, subject to nineteen enumerated exemptions...

Levine v. Vilsack

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
In an action challenging the USDA's enunciation of its position in the Federal Register that there was no specific federal humane handling and...

Delano Farms Co. v. Cal. Table Grape Comm'n

Agriculture, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a First Amendment challenge to a state statutory scheme requiring grape growers to fund generic advertising, summary judgment for defendant is...

Perry v. Prop. 8 Official Proponents

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
In an action challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative restricting the definition of marriage to the union of...

Fleming v. Yuma Reg. Med. Ctr.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for employment discrimination based on plaintiff's disability, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where Section 504 of the...

Cell Therapeutics Inc. v. Lash Group Inc.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action for indemnification based on the settlement of an underlying suit against plaintiff for violations of the False Claims Act (FCA),...

Lahoti v. VeriCheck, Inc.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In an action seeking a declaratory judgment that plaintiff's acquisition of the vericheck.com domain name did not constitute trademark infringement or...

US v. Mahan

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's conviction for possession of a firearm "in furtherance of" a drug trafficking offense in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 924(c) is affirmed...

Matsuo v. US

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act infringed the right to travel because it penalized federal employees who worked...

Bermudez v. Holder

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order denying petitioner's request to terminate proceedings and his request for cancellation of removal, the...