United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD. v. INT'L B'HOOD OF ELEC. WORKERS

Labor & Employment Law
An NLRB order, concluding that a union's forcing a member to pay Market Recovery Program funds for work done on Davis-Bacon Act projects is inimical...

MANTZ v. CALIFORNIA STATE BD. OF EQUALIZATION

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Tax Law
Because there was no final administrative determination of appellants' tax liability prior to the commencement of the bankruptcy proceedings, the...

ENVT'L DEF. CTR. v. US ENVT'L PROT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
A rule issued pursuant to the Clean Water Act, to control pollutants introduced into the nation's waters by storm sewers, is remanded due to the EPA's...

MOREAU v. AIR FRANCE

Labor & Employment Law
The district court correctly concluded that defendant should not be considered a joint employer, for Family and Medical Leave Act purposes, of the...

PUB. CITIZEN INC. v. MINETA

Administrative Law, Transportation
An order promulgating a regulation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has not been "issued" until it has been filed with the Office...

S.W. VOTER REGISTRATION EDUC. PROJECT v. SHELLEY

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
Plaintiffs in a challenge to a gubernatorial recall election demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of their equal protection claim that...

DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF WASHINGTON STATE v. REED

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
The state of Washington's "blanket" primary, in which voters choose candidates without being restricted to candidates of any particular party,...

GIEBELER v. M&B ASSOCS.

Civil Rights, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The Fair Housing Amendments Act, 42 U.S.C. section 3601 et seq., required apartment owners reasonably to accommodate a tenant's disability by...

ALBINGIA VERSICHERUNGS A.G. v. SCHENKER INT'L INC.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Transportation
In a challenge to a limitation of liability in a waybill, because a state law complaint was properly removed to the district court due to the federal...

BIG MEADOWS GRAZING ASS'N v. US

Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
16 U.S.C. section 3837a neither requires assent to a conservation plan by the seller of a conservation easement, nor requires that the agreement to...