United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Torres-Chavez 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 denied where Petitioner's Due Process rights were not...

US v. Ensminger

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's conviction for failure to register as a sex offender is affirmed, where the District Court properly denied Defendant's motion to withdraw...

Morales-Garcia v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law, Immigration Law
Petitioner's petition for review of the BIA's denial of his application for withholding of removal is granted, where the BIA erred in holding that...

Keller v. Comm'r. of Int'l. Rev.

Administrative Law, Tax Law
In an appeal from the Tax Court's judgment that the IRS did not abuse its discretion by rejecting Petitioners' offers-in-compromise of their tax...

Catholic League for Relig. and Civ. Rts. v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that a city resolution disapproving of the Catholic Church's position on same-sex adoptions violated the...

Cinapian v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
Petitioners' petition for review of the denial of their application for withholding of removal is granted, where the government failed to make the...

Clem v. Lomeli

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that Defendant-Officer failed to protect Plaintiff from being beaten by his cellmate, judgment for...

Scott v. Schriro

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a capital habeas matter, the denial of Petitioner's petition is reversed, where the District Court erred by failing to conduct an evidentiary...

Corales v. Bennett

Civil Rights, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action for improper discipline by a school arising out of a student's suicide, summary judgment for Defendants is affirmed...

US v. Amezcua-Vasquez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence for attempted illegal reentry into the U.S. is vacated, where the District Court applied a 16-level enhancement under U.S.S.G....