United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Alvarez-Tejeda

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a case addressing the Fourth Amendment's limits on the use of trickery and force in conducting seizures, arising from circumstances in which DEA...

Paramount Land Co. LP v. California Pistachio Comm'n

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies
In a dispute over whether a statutory scheme compelling California pistachio growers to fund generic advertising through the California Pistachio...

Reynoso-Cisneros v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
A petition for review of a BIA order denying petitioner's motion to reopen exclusion proceedings is granted where: 1) petitioner filed her motion to...

California Dep't of Water Res. v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Law, Public Utilities, Water Law
State agency's petition for review of an FERC order allowing state utility-PG&E to include certain charges in its tariff for use of its power...

US v. Beltran-Munguia

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A prior felony conviction under Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) section 163.425 for sexual abuse in the second degree does not qualify as a "crime of...

Maciel v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Tax Law
A decision upholding an IRS Notice of Deficiency for certain tax years is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) the tax court properly...

Tang v. Gonzales

Health Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a denial of Chinese petitioner's application for asylum and withholding of removal, which alleged that an abortion performed on...

Gruver v. Lesman Fisheries Inc.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of the seaman's action for assault and unpaid wages for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is reversed as a fight aboard a ship between the...

US v. Narvaez-Gomes

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Fernandez-Ruiz v. Gonzales, 466 F.3d 1121 (9th Cir. 2006), abrogates previous applicable precedent such that California Penal Code section 246, which...

Gautt v. Lewis

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of habeas relief on petitioner's sentence for second-degree murder is reversed where: 1) his constitutional due process right to be informed of...