United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Cummings v. Connell

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law
When nominal damages are awarded in a civil rights class action, every member of the class whose constitutional rights were violated is entitled to...

Arc of Washington v. Braddock

Government Law, Health Law
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act allows states to restrict the number of people who can participate in the special Home and...

Milicevic v. Fletcher Jones Imports

Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law
The district court properly found that defendant-automobile dealership violated the Nevada lemon law where there was sufficient evidence to find that...

Handa v. Clark

Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
Denial of plaintiff's petition for habeas corpus relief is affirmed over his claim that he was wrongfully removed after he overstayed the ninety-day...

River City Ranches v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Tax Law
The Tax Court does have jurisdiction to make findings concerning the imposition of penalty-interest under 26 U.S.C. section 6621(c).

Silvers v. Sony Pictures Entm't

Contracts, Copyright, Intellectual Property
An assignee who holds an accrued claim for copyright infringement, but who has no legal or beneficial interest in the copyright itself, may not...

Ngo v. Woodford

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
The Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement does not bar subsequent judicial consideration of an exhausted administrative appeal that...

Jett v. Sicroff

Bankruptcy Law, Injury & Tort Law
Defendant's debt is nondischargeable under the Bankruptcy Act as one for willful and malicious injury since it arose out of a published defamatory...

Great Basin Mine Watch v. EPA

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law
Defendant-EPA did not act arbitrarily, capriciously, or contrary to law when it granted Nevada's request to split one of its clean air areas into two.

Solis-Espinoza v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Plaintiff's petition for review is granted where he is not subject to removal since he qualified for citizenship under 8 U.S.C. section 1401(g).