all - Opinion Summaries

Wells v. Union Pacific Railroad Company

Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
Reversing a district court order granting a motion to dismiss a railroad's counterclaims in class action suits by landowners challenging their ability...

John R. Lawson Rock and Oil, Inc. v. State Air Resources Board

Transportation, Administrative Law, Environmental Law
Affirming trial court conclusions that the State Air Resources Board had made several errors in the process of approving a Truck and Bus Regulation,...

Sierra Palms Homeowners Association v. Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority

Civil Procedure, Transportation
Reversing the judgment granting a construction authority's motion to strike a complaint filed by a homeowners' association relating to the inverse...

Smart Systems Innovations v. Chicago Transit Auth.

Transportation, Patent
In an patent action, concerning various asserted patents aimed at open-payment fare systems in mass transit networks, the district court's judgment is...

JetSuite, Inc. v. County of Los Angeles

Transportation, Tax Law, Administrative Law
Affirming the trial court's denial of a writ petition by an air taxi service seeking to avoid tax liability in Los Angeles because it claimed to be...

Grice III v. McVeigh

Transportation, Public Utilities, Criminal Law & Procedure
Reversing the decision of the US District Court denying the motion of police officers for qualified immunity in the arrest of a teenage train...

Waymo v. Uber

Patent, Transportation, Trade Secrets, Intellectual Property
Dismissing the appeal of a district court's denial of an application for writ of mandamus seeking to avoid the production of a report produced at the...

Airline Service Providers Association v. Los Angeles World Airports

Transportation, Civil Procedure
Affirming that preemption provisions did not apply to the City because in operating an airport it was acting as a market participant and vacating in...

Vanderklok v. US Transportation Security Administration

Transportation, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
Vacating a District Court order without reaching the issues on appeal because the court held that a First Amendment claim against a TSA employee for...

Barnes v. Federal Aviation Administration

Environmental Law, Government Law, Transportation
Denying a petition for review in the case of environmentalists and private citizens complaining about a new runway at an airport because the decision...