United States Ninth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

MEYER v. AMERIQUEST MORTGAGE CO.

Banking Law, Consumer Protection Law
The statute of limitations had run on a suit alleging violation of the Truth in Lending Act, where alleged failure to make required disclosures...

US v. LAMONT

Criminal Law & Procedure
Under the general federal arson statute, 18 U.S.C. section 844(i), setting fire to a building used as a church does not ordinarily constitute a...

UNION OIL CO. v. TERRIBLE HERBST, INC.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law
In a contract dispute over responsibility for pollution clean-up beneath a gas station, withholding assertion of a non-frivolous claim, in reliance on...

VAN SUSTEREN v. JONES

Constitutional Law, Elections
Plaintiff did not meet the disaffiliation requirement in California Elections Code section 8001 because he had been registered as a Republican within...

INT'L HEALTHCARE MGMT. v. HAWAII COALITION FOR HEALTH

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health Law, Insurance Law
In an action alleging a conspiracy to fix prices and to boycott their plan in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. section 1, and...

US v. PINA-JAIME

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, Sentencing
Conviction by guilty plea for being a deported alien found in the US is affirmed, because a previously deported alien who is paroled into the US for a...

BITTAKER v. WOODFORD

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
The district court was entirely justified in entering a protective order which limited the scope of the habeas petitioner's waiver of the...

US v. CABACCANG

Criminal Law & Procedure
The transport of drugs on a nonstop flight from one location within the United States to another does not constitute importation within the meaning of...

BAFFERT v. CALIFORNIA HORSE RACING BD.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Sports Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action seeking the appeal of defendant agency's suspension of plaintiff's license to race horses in California, the...

HO v. CAREY

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Plaintiff was deprived of his constitutional right to have a jury decide every element of the offense of second-degree murder based on implied malice,...