United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Carmickle v. Comm'r, Soc. Sec. Admin.

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
A denial of Social Security Disability Insurance benefits claimed to be due primarily to a back injury caused by a 2001 on-the-job accident is...

Parussimova v. Mukasey

Evidence, Immigration Law
Petition for review from a denial of asylum is denied where the BIA, in applying a provision of the Real ID Act of 2005 imposing a new evidentiary...

Bodine v. Graco, Inc.

Consumer Protection Law, Transportation
The private right of action under the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act is limited to allegations of fraud relating to a vehicle's...

Ordlock v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Family Law, Tax Law
A tax court's determination that wife is ineligible for a refund under 26 U.S.C. section 6015 for payments on her husband's tax debt paid from their...

Northwest Envtl. Advocates v. US Envtl. Prot. Agency

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Remedies
In an action challenging a regulation originally promulgated by the EPA in 1973 exempting certain marine discharges from the permitting scheme of...

US v. Jimenez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, Sentencing
A sentence for unlawful reentry of a deported alien is affirmed where defendant's prior convictions for Unlawful Use of a Communication Facility under...

Singh v. Mukasey

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Immigration Law
The REAL ID Act of 2005 gives aliens whose removal order became final before the REAL ID Act a reasonable opportunity to obtain judicial review....

Cox v. Ocean View Hotel Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination case involving an employment agreement containing a mandatory arbitration clause, denial of defendant-employer's...

Houston v. Schomig

Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Habeas Corpus
Denial of habeas relief from petitioner's conviction for conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon, and...

California Dep't of Water Res. v. Powerex Corp.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, International Law, Public Utilities
In a case arising out of the 2000-2001 California energy crisis, an order remanding the case to state court is reversed and remanded where: 1) review...