United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Cruz-Perez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence for illegal reentry into the U.S. is affirmed, where: 1) Defendant did not point to any undisclosed ground upon which the...

Hyde v. Midland Cred. Mgmt., Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Debt Collection
In an appeal from an award of attorney's fees in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act action following judgment for Defendants, the award is reversed...

Citizens for Better Forestry v. US Dep't of Agric.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Attorney's Fees, Environmental Law
In Plaintiff's motion for attorney's fees in a matter in which the USDA withdrew the regulation at issue while the case was pending, the award of fees...

Nadarajah v. Holder

Attorney's Fees, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
In Petitioner's motion for attorney's fees in an appeal in which the Court of Appeals ordered that Petitioner's habeas petition be granted, the motion...

Kearns v. Ford Motor Co.

Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
In an action claiming that Defendant car company made false and misleading statements about the safety of its used vehicles, the dismissal of the...

Qwest Corp. v. Ariz. Corp. Comm.

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In an action challenging an arbitration order under Section 252 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, summary judgment for Plaintiff is affirmed,...

Romero v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Petitioner's petition for review of the BIA's order removing him from the U.S. is granted, where the BIA erred by finding Petitioner statutorily...

Roth v. Reyes

Civil Procedure, Securities Law
In an action on behalf of a corporation under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to recover short-swing profits from the company's...

Coalition for ICANN Transparency, Inc. v. VeriSign, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Cyberspace Law
In an antitrust action claiming that Defendant, which acts as the sole operator of the ".com" and ".net" domain name registries, set artificially high...

Douglas v. Noelle

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action for impeding a prisoner's exercise of religion, the dismissal of the complaint is reversed where the mailbox rule...