United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

LaMantia v. Voluntary Plan Admin. Inc.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit for long-term disability benefits, summary judgment in favor of plaintiff is reversed where the district court erred in applying the...

US v. Kranovich

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's conviction for theft involving a federally funded program is affirmed over his claim that there was insufficient evidence that the...

Taghadomi v. US

Injury & Tort Law
In a tort claim against the federal government arising out of an accident at sea, dismissal of plaintiff's claim is affirmed where the suit cannot be...

SEC v. Yuen

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
A district court order, withholding compensation payments to executives of a corporation pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, is affirmed over...

Darulis v. Garate

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death action, dismissal of plaintiff's suit is affirmed where the district court properly concluded that California's six-month...

Stuard v. Stewart

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of plaintiff's habeas petition is affirmed where the district court did not err by determining that plaintiff, by asserting his right to a...

Minasyan v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Plaintiff is not subject to removal as a felon convicted of an aggravated offense since he is a derivative citizen of the United States pursuant to...

Fields v. Waddington

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A state prisoner's habeas petition, which briefs a state constitutional claim, does not alert the state court of a federal constitutional claim.

Nagrampa v. MailCoups, Inc.

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
An arbitrator, and not the court, is the proper party to determine whether an agreement containing an arbitration clause is unconscionable.

KON v. GONZALES

Immigration Law