United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

N. Cheyenne Tribe v. Norton

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Indian Law, Oil and Gas Law
In a suit involving multiple challenges to an injunction limiting, but not entirely prohibiting, coal bed methane development while the Bureau of Land...

Carrington v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentences for drug offenses are affirmed where: 1) the statutory limits on second or successive habeas petitions do not create a gap in the...

Bolt v. Merrimack Pharm., Inc.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In a suit by a shareholder to redeem his stock, summary judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where: 1) defendant had an obligation to redeem plaintiff's...

Polk v. Sandoval

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus is reversed where petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process was violated because the...

LinkLine Communications, Inc. v. SBC California, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications Law, Cyberspace Law
In a suit alleging that an incumbent local exchange carrier monopolized and attempted to monopolize the regional digital subscriber line market in...

Bader v. N. Line Layers, Inc.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act alleging a failure to provide notice in the event of a plant closing or mass...

US v. Crews

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Orders suppressing evidence seized during a search of defendants' apartment are reversed where the good faith reliance exception to the exclusionary...

Fields v. Brown

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Grant of a petition for writ of habeas corpus regarding sentencing is reversed where juror misconduct, assuming any occurred during the penalty phase,...

Dent v. Cox Communications Las Vegas, Inc.

Contracts, Government Law, Judgement Enforcement, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit claiming unpaid overtime wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state law, dismissal of the FLSA claims is affirmed in part where a...

Solidus Networks, Inc. v. Excel Innovations, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Remedies
When a bankruptcy debtor applies for a 11 U.S.C. section 105(a) preliminary injunction to stay a proceeding in which the debtor is not a party, the...