United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Arizona Life Coalition Inc. v. Stanton

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Tax-exempt Organizations, Transportation
The Arizona License Plate Commission violated plaintiff's First Amendment right to free speech in denying its application for a special Arizona...

Local Joint Exec. Bd. of Las Vegas v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Administrative Law, Gaming Law, Labor & Employment Law
Unions' petition for review of an NLRB decision reversing an ALJ's conclusion that agents of Aladdin Gaming engaged in illegal surveillance in...

US v. Snipe

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
For purposes of the exigent circumstances analysis, a two-pronged test is adopted that asks whether: 1) considering the totality of the circumstances,...

US v. Lococo

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Appeals from defendants' convictions and sentences for conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine are dismissed in part and affirmed in part, but...

US v. Carr

Criminal Law & Procedure
A conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed where the statutory structure under which he was convicted required that his...

US v. Cherer

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
A conviction and sentence for attempting to persuade, entice, or coerce a minor to engage in sexual acts with him is affirmed over claims that: 1) the...

US v. Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Sports Law
The United States may retain certain evidence it seized from Major League Baseball's drug testing administrator, and enforce an additional subpoena,...

Apolinar v. Mukasey

Immigration Law
A petition for review of decisions, one of which dismissed petitioner's appeal of an IJ's denial of cancellation of removal and rejection of an...

Contractors Equip. Maint. Co., Inc. v. Bechtel Hanford, Inc.

Contracts, Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Insurance Law
In a case arising from a breach of contract dispute in an environmental remediation project, grant of defendant-Bechtel's motion for judgment on a...

Beltran v. Santa Clara County

Civil Rights, Family Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought against a social worker and supervisor arising from the social worker's investigation and a subsequent child...