United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Spano v. Safeco Corp.

Consumer Protection Law, Insurance Law
On remand from the Supreme Court, the district court's judgment is affirmed where plaintiffs-appellants did not raise on appeal any basis for...

US v. Calderon-Segura

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Immigration Law, Sentencing
A conviction and sentence for being a deported alien found in the U.S. is affirmed where: 1) a motion to dismiss the indictment was properly denied as...

US v. Tulaner

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence, arising from a scheme to defraud certain companies by posing as an executive of one of the companies in order to obtain valuable...

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. E. Bay Taxi Drivers Ass'n & Bhd. of Teamsters

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
An NLRB decision finding that petitioner-cab company's taxicab drivers are "employees", as opposed to independent contractors, and that the company...

Fernandez v. Mukasey

Health Law, Immigration Law
In immigration proceedings involving devout Catholics, who attempted to conceive a child for many years but were unable to have a child due to their...

United Steelworkers of Am. v. Retirement Income Plan for Hourly-Rated Employees of ASARCO, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In a union and retirees' action against the owner and operator of a copper smelter plant's retirement plan seeking to compel arbitration of retirees'...

Hayward v. Marshall

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In habeas proceedings arising from circumstances in which petitioner was twice granted a parole date by the California Board of Prison Terms, and...

Saleh v. Fleming

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Incarceration does not ipso facto render an interrogation custodial, and the need for a Miranda warning to a person in custody for an unrelated matter...

Bering Strait Citizens for Responsible Res. Dev. v. US Army Corps of Eng'rs

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
In an appeal involving a permit issued to Defendant-gold mining company by defendant-Army Corps of Engineers for a major gold-mining project in...

In re: Cooper Commons LLC

Attorney's Fees, Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Construction, Contracts
In bankruptcy proceedings in which a law firm representing debtor objected to certain funds requested by the bankruptcy trustee from accumulated funds...