United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

SORANNO v. CLARK COUNTY

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
An action, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief that would require a county to issue plaintiff permits to place news racks on certain sidewalks,...

CUNNINGHAM v. CITY OF WENATCHEE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A police officer was entitled to qualified immunity in a claim that he violated a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 plaintiff's civil rights during a sex abuse...

US v. KINCADE

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Forced extraction of blood from parolees pursuant to the federal DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 requires individualized suspicion under...

ORDONEZ v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Immigration Law
A Guatemalan citizen did not receive adequate notice of the effects of failing to voluntarily depart, and the Board of Immigration Appeals erred in...

BANKSTON v. WHITE

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's voluntary dismissal of his Merit Systems Protection Board appeal does not bar the district court's jurisdiction over his Age...

MARTINEZ-VAZQUEZ v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Immigration Law
Former 8 U.S.C. section 1226(e) - a statutory provision Congress largely repealed in the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 -...

VANCE v. BARRETT

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In constitutional challenges to the administration of inmate trust accounts by state prison authorities, prison officials are entitled to qualified...

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMM'N v. LUCE, FORWARD, HAMILTON & SCRIPPS

Civil Rights, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
No conflict exists between the purpose of Title VII and compulsory arbitration of Title VII claims, and the text of section 118 of the Civil Rights...

PONCE v. SEC. & EXCH. COMM'N

Professional Malpractice, Sanctions, Securities Law
Substantial evidence supports the SEC's ruling that a C.P.A. violated federal securities laws, rules, and regulations in performing accounting and...

SCHNEIDER v. CALIFORNIA DEP'T OF CORR.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
As further factual development is needed to determine whether California's failure to pay interest to individual inmates on their Inmate Trust Account...