United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Kadillak v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Administrative Law, Securities Law, Tax Law
An individual taxpayer's Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) capital losses are subject to the limitations in I.R.C. sections 172(d) and 1211(b), and...

Aguilar-Gonzales v. Mukasey

Immigration Law
Petition for review of a denial of petitioner's motion to terminate removal proceedings against her and a finding that she was inadmissible under...

Moreno v. City of Sacramento

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
In a suit alleging that defendants violated plaintiff's civil rights by seizing and destroying his property without due process, an award of...

Johnson v. Riverside Healthcare Sys., LP

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action raising civil rights claims under federal and state law brought by a physician asserting that he was discriminated against based on his...

Moore v. Czerniak

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for habeas relief from a conviction for felony murder is reversed where: 1) a conclusion that petitioner's recorded confession to...

Casas-Castrillon v. Dep't of Homeland Sec.

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In the context of the detention of an alien who is a legal permanent resident of the U.S., the circuit court rules that a prolonged detention must be...

Rodriguez-Echeverria v. Mukasey

Evidence, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a final order of removal is granted and the matter remanded where: 1) an IJ erred in determining that petitioner was not under...

Prieto-Romero v. Clark

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
An alien whose removal order is administratively final, but whose removal is stayed pending the court of appeals' resolution of his petition for...

Mejia v. Garcia

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from convictions for kidnapping, assault with a firearm, and assault with a deadly weapon is affirmed...

Metzler Inv. GMBH v. Corinthian Colleges, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Education Law, Securities Law
In a putative federal securities fraud class action against an operator of private for-profit vocational colleges and officers pursuant to sections...