United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

COUTEE v. BARINGTON CAPITAL GROUP, L.P.

Attorney's Fees, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Securities Law
Arbitrators in a securities claim did not manifestly disregard the facts in assessing the amount of loss that resulted from defendant's conduct, and...

US v. SEMSAK

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The district court interpreted the U.S.S.G. correctly after an involuntary manslaughter conviction, in departing upward because the size of...

FARRAKHAN v. STATE OF WASHINGTON

Civil Rights, Elections
Evidence of discrimination within the criminal justice system can be relevant to a claim of improper race-based vote denial under Section 2 of the...

KREMEN v. COHEN

Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A domain name registrar may be held legally liable on a theory of conversion, for giving away a registrant's domain name on the basis of a forged...

RICHARDSON v. CONT'L GRAIN CO.

Admiralty, Attorney's Fees, Injury & Tort Law, Workers' Compensation
Denial of attorneys' fees under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act is affirmed where plaintiff did not successfully prosecute his...

US v. MIGUEL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law, Sentencing
The district court committed structural error when it precluded criminal defendants from arguing their theory of the case and instructed the jury that...

US v. JUVENILE MALE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law
The district court transferred a juvenile to adult prosecution without jurisdiction, where it failed to receive the juvenile's official records prior...

ECHAZABAL v. CHEVRON USA, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Disputed issues of fact exist with respect to an employer's obligations under the EEOC regulations concerning the "direct threat" defense under the...

US v. MARSHALL

Asset Forfeiture, Property Law & Real Estate
In assessing the monetary equivalent of forfeited real property, the proper standard is the value of the property when the government sold it.

CIRCUIT CITY STORES, INC. v. MANTOR

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
An arbitration agreement presented to an employee was procedurally unconscionable under California's contract law where the employee had no meaningful...