United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Clement v. City of Glendale

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
The government must attempt to notify the owner of a vehicle parked in violation of a valid "planned non-operation" (PNO) certificate before the...

Surrell v. California Water Serv. Co.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In the context of Title VII and the exhaustion requirement, where a plaintiff is entitled to receive a right-to-sue letter from the EEOC, a plaintiff...

Trans-Tec Asia v. M/V Harmony Container

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Debt Collection, International Law, International Trade, Transportation
A foreign supplier, by supplying fuel to a foreign-flagged vessel in a foreign port under an agreement that U.S. law applied to the transaction, may...

Manta v. Chertoff

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, International Law, White Collar Crime
Dismissal of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking relief from a grant of a request for extradition based on foreign charges of fraud is...

Mustanich v. Mukasey

Immigration Law
Petition for review of a final order of removal by the BIA is denied where the circuit court rejects a claim that, although petitioner did not file an...

Budnick v. Town of Carefree

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Elder Law, Government Law, Health Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action raising, inter alia, a claim that defendant-town violated the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 (FHAA) by denying plaintiffs a Special...

Lemus-Galvan v. Mukasey

Immigration Law
Petition for review of a denial of petitioner's deferral of removal claim under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) is denied where: 1) the circuit...

US v. Crampton

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A conviction and sentence for being a felon in possession of firearms is affirmed where: 1) federal law controls what defendant could possess, and...

Shafer v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of plaintiff's motion for attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) in a social security disability action is reversed where...

US v. Rodriguez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The "clear statement" rule of Davis v. US, 512 U.S. 452, 462 (1994), applies only after the police have already obtained an unambiguous and...