United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Berger v. Seattle

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Government Law
In a challenge to Defendant-City's rules governing street performers in a public park, summary judgment for Plaintiff is affirmed where the rules...

US v. Mitchell

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's drug distribution conviction and sentence are affirmed where, even if plain error review did not apply, there was no error in the District...

Kessee v. Mendoza-Powers

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In the state's appeal from the District Court's order conditionally granting Petitioner's habeas petition, the order is reversed where the sentencing...

US v. Sanchez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's mail fraud sentence is affirmed where the District Court correctly held that it was precluded from considering evidence of Defendant's...

Smith v. Richards

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a habeas petition alleging that Petitioner sex offender's pending detainer in one state rendered invalid his civil commitment in another state, the...

US v. Lopez-Velasquez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a prosecution for illegal reentry into the U.S., the dismissal of the indictment is affirmed where Defendant's deportation order was invalid due to...

Friedman v. Boucher

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging the unlawful taking of a DNA sample, the dismissal of the action on qualified immunity grounds is...

Schroeder v. US

Government Benefits, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action seeking to quiet title in an apartment complex Plaintiff owned and operated, summary judgment for Defendant federal agencies is affirmed...

Lahr v. National Transp. Safety Bd.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Transportation
In a Freedom of Information Act action seeking documents pertaining to a government investigation of a plane crash, the District Court's order...

Tennison v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on Defendant-Officers' alleged withholding of exculpatory evidence, the partial denial of Defendants' motion...