United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Ray v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Petition for review of a denial of a motion to reopen petitioner's asylum case is granted since the Board of Immigration Appeals abused its discretion...

Cornwell v. Electra Cent. Credit Union

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
Summary judgment for defendants, an employer and its chief executive officer, is reversed in part as to plaintiff's claim that his demotion was the...

Comm'r of Internal Revenue v. Ewing

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Family Law, Tax Law
A tax court decision concluding that an individual was entitled to relief under the equitable innocent spouse provision of the Internal Revenue Code...

Roles v. Maddox

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
The Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement applies with equal force to prisoners held in private prisons. Dismissal of prisoner...

Gathright v. City of Portland

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
A permanent injunction against a municipality is vacated where, although the district court properly concluded that defendant infringed plaintiff's...

Gathright v. City of Portland

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
A permanent injunction against a municipality is vacated where, although the district court properly concluded that defendant infringed plaintiff's...

Gathright v. City of Portland

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
A permanent injunction against a municipality is vacated where, although the district court properly concluded that defendant infringed plaintiff's...

US v. Bear

Defendant's conviction for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine is reversed where the district court committed plain error by not...

First Ave. W. Bldg., LLC v. James

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
District court order permitting a bankrupt tenant's trustee to pursue recovery from the landlord of damages up to the full amount of the tenant's...

Acosta v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
An alien inadmissible for accruing more than one year of unlawful presence is eligible for penalty-fee adjustment of status. A petition for review of...