all - Opinion Summaries

Moriarty v. Colvin

Government Benefits, Attorney's Fees
In a suit challenging Massachusetts Commissioner of Social Security Administration's decision to administer its own Supplemental Security Income (SSI)...

Mejia-Ramaja v. Lynch

Immigration Law
In a petition to review the decision of the Board of Immigrant Appeals (BIA) declining to reopen Guatemalan petitioner's removal proceedings, the...

Wilder v. US

Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
Denial of petition for writ of habeas corpus relief, 28 U.S.C. section 2255, from conviction of transportation, receipt and possession of child...

US v. McIvery

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case in which defendant was indicted under a legal regime that was modified by the subsequent passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA),...

In re Amanda A.

Juvenile Law
In an appeal of the juvenile court's order continuing defendant as a ward of the court under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602, the order is...

In re Marriage of Smith

Family Law
In an appeal of a trial court order that ex-wife pay, pursuant to Family Code section 2030 and 271, certain amounts to a claimant subject to a...

People v. Acosta

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a petition action for resentencing under Proposition 48, to reduce defendant's felony conviction of attempted second degree burglary of a vehicle,...

Marlton Recovery Partners, LLC v. County of Los Angeles

Tax Law
In a petition action for preemptory writ of mandate seeing to overturn a decision denying plaintiff's request for cancellation of tax penalties under...

Griffin v. The Haunted Hotel, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law
In an suit against the operator of an outdoor haunted house type of attraction for injuries sustained by plaintiff when he fell while fleeing from...

In re K.M.

Juvenile Law, Family Law, Indian Law
In a parents' action appealing from the juvenile court's order terminating their parental rights to their 3-year old daughter, the juvenile court's...