United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Craig v. M&O Agencies, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a sexual harassment suit, summary judgment for defendants and additional rulings against plaintiff are affirmed in part, but reversed in part and...

Hernandez-Ortiz v. Gonzales

Evidence, Immigration Law
Injuries to a family must be considered in an asylum case where the events that form the basis of the past persecution claim were perceived when the...

McElmurry v. US Bank Nat'l Ass'n

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In a wage dispute brought by a bank's employees, an interlocutory appeal of a denial of plaintiffs' motion to issue notice of a collective action...

Day v. Apoliona

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Indian Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
The circuit court reaffirms that each Native Hawaiian, as a beneficiary of the trust created by the Hawaii Admission Act section 5(f), has an...

US v. Riedl

Asset Forfeiture, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In proceedings arising after defendant had served her 66-month sentence for offenses including money laundering, denial of her petition for a writ of...

N. California River Watch v. City of Healdsburg

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Water Law
A judgment in favor of an environmental group in litigation under the Clean Water Act (CWA) challenging a city's discharge of sewage from its waste...

Porter v. Bowen

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Elections, Government Law
In an action brought by website owners against the secretary of state arising from their operation of websites which included certain "vote-swapping"...

US v. Bolanos-Hernandez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence for illegal re-entry into the U.S. following deportation is affirmed as: 1) defendant's prior California crime of assault with intent to...

US v. Moses

Criminal Law & Procedure, Environmental Law, Water Law
Conviction for violating the Clean Water Act is affirmed where: 1) the evidence supported the determination that the body of water in question...

Vargas-Hernandez v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Petition for review of the BIA's dismissal of an appeal from the IJ's order of removal is dismissed where petitioner's prosecution and conviction in...