United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Kendall v. Visa U.S.A., Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law
In a suit brought under the Sherman and Clayton Acts for antitrust violations, alleging defendants conspired with each other to set the fees charged...

Int'l B'hood of Teamsters v. N. Am. Airlines

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
Section 2, First of the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 U.S.C. section 152 First, read in conjunction with other provisions of the RLA, does not impose a...

Lussier v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal by putative class representatives in wage dispute litigation, denial of their request for attorney's fees following a successful motion...

Manufactured Home Cmtys. Inc. v. County of San Diego

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal rulings, grant of a motion to strike under the California anti-SLAPP law, and an award of attorney's fees for defendants are reversed in...

Manufactured Home Cmtys. Inc. v. County of San Diego

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal rulings, grant of a motion to strike under the California anti-SLAPP law, and an award of attorney's fees for defendants are reversed in...

Manufactured Home Cmtys. Inc. v. County of San Diego

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal rulings, grant of a motion to strike under the California anti-SLAPP law, and an award of attorney's fees for defendants are reversed in...

Manufactured Home Cmtys. Inc. v. County of San Diego

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal rulings, grant of a motion to strike under the California anti-SLAPP law, and an award of attorney's fees for defendants are reversed in...

Brown & Bain, P.A. v. O'Quinn

Contracts, Environmental Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In a suit brought by a Phoenix law firm, against a Houston law firm for fees owed to it on the termination of a lawsuit, a judgment for plaintiff is...

Al-Mousa v. Mukasey

Immigration Law
A petition for review brought by petitioner, a native of Sudan and citizen of Saudi Arabia, of a denial of his applications for asylum and related...

In re: Copley Press, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law
In proceedings involving the unsealing of documents relating to individuals who ran a drug cartel in Mexico, an order unsealing the transcript of a...