2011 Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
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Date: December 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2162
Docket Number: 10-50528
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, a Mexican national, was convicted of two counts of illegal entry and subsequently appealed the district court's application of a sixteen-level sentencing enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. 2L1.2(b). Because…
Date: December 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2155
Docket Numbers: 09-16676, 09-16677, 09-16679, 09-16682, 09-16683, 09-16684, 09-16685, 09-16686, 09-16687, 09-16688, 09-16690, 09-16691, 09-16692, 09-16693, 09-16694, 09-16696, 09-16697, 09-16698, 09-16700, 09-16701, 09-16702, 09-16704, 09-16706, 09-16707, 09-16708, 09-16709, 09-16710, 09-16712, 09-16713, 09-16717, 09-16719, 09-16720, 09-16723
Justia Opinion Summary: These consolidated appeals arose from claims that major telecommunications carriers assisted the government with intelligence gathering following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Plaintiffs challenged the…
Date: December 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2156
Docket Number: 09-17133
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed from the district court's dismissal of their complaint against government officials and a group of telecommunications companies. Plaintiffs challenged section 802 of the Foreign Intelligence…
Date: December 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2157
Docket Numbers: 10-15616, 10-15638
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from claims that the federal government, with the assistance of major telecommunications companies, engaged in widespread warrantless eavesdropping in the United States following the September 11, 2001…
Date: December 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2158
Docket Numbers: 10-35832, 10-35893
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a continuing political committee, alleged that three provisions of Washington election law violated the First Amendment as applied to ballot measure committees. The court held that Washington's disclosure…
Date: December 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2159
Docket Number: 10-55064
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a complaint alleging, among other things, a violation of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), 15 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. The district court subsequently granted defendant's Rule 12(b)(6) motion and plaintiffs…
Date: December 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2159
Docket Number: 10-55064
Date: December 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2160
Docket Number: 10-56203
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the denial of his habeas petition, contending that the California state trial court violated his Sixth Amendment rights when it imposed an upper term sentence based in part on its conclusion that he…
Date: December 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2161
Docket Numbers: 97-70037, 97-70099, 97-70217, 07-74348
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose out of three applications by the TRRC to build a a railroad line in Southeastern Montana to haul coal. The Board, or its predecessor, approved each of the three applications (TRRC I, II, and III).…
Date: December 28, 2011
Docket Number: 09-56192
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved A.S., a California minor, who was eligible for special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq. At issue was which California agency was…
Date: December 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2153
Docket Number: 10-10060
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute. The court held that because the delay in presenting defendant to a…
Date: December 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2154
Docket Number: 10-50478
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed from his conviction for maintaining his residence for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using methamphetamine. Defendant contended that the district court erred in denying his motion to…
Date: December 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2150
Docket Number: 10-15454
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a minor who had been diagnosed with autism, appealed the district court's affirmance of the Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) hearing officer's decision that plaintiff's free and appropriate public…
Date: December 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2151
Docket Number: 10-16043
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued defendant, a general improvement district, arguing that defendant's policy of only allowing people who own or rent real property within defendant's 1968 boundaries to access beaches that it owned and…
Date: December 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2152
Docket Number: 10-17128
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted of murder and other aggravated enhancements. This case reached the court on a certificate of appealability granted by the district court on the issue of whether the state court of appeal acted…
Date: December 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2149
Docket Number: 09-56541
Justia Opinion Summary: The Church appealed the adverse grant of summary judgment on its claim that the County enforced a land use regulation in violation of the Church's constitutional and statutory rights under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and the…
Date: December 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2148
Docket Numbers: 09-56827, 10-55084
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs contended that Barack Obama was constitutionally ineligible to be President of the United States. In addition to plaintiffs' constitutional claims, as well as their claims for declaratory and injunctive…
Date: December 20, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2147
Docket Numbers: 09-55902, 09-56777, 09-55732
Justia Opinion Summary: UMG filed suit against Veoh for direct and secondary copyright infringement where users of Veoh's service have in the past been able, without UMG's authorization, to download videos containing songs for which UMG owned a…
Date: December 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2145
Docket Number: 08-74674
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, born in El Salvador, petitioned for review of the BIA's dismissal of his appeal. The BIA found that petitioner was removable because he had committed a crime of violence and failed to establish entitlement to…
Date: December 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2146
Docket Numbers: 10-72728, 10-73125
Justia Opinion Summary: PAC sought review of an order of the Board holding that PAC violated section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (Act), 29 U.S.C. 158(a)(1), by firing an employee for his outburst during a meeting with PAC…
Date: December 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2143
Docket Number: 10-16040
Justia Opinion Summary: Brian Fitzgerald appealed for a second time the district court's award to him of $33,333 in quantum meruit - for his services in a medical malpractice case appellee had settled on behalf of Wende Nostro, a client…
Date: December 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2144
Docket Number: 11-35026
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, Washington Medicaid beneficiaries with severe mental and physical disabilities, appealed the district court's denial of their motion for a preliminary injunction. Plaintiffs sought to enjoin the operation of…
Date: December 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2144
Docket Number: 11-35026
Date: December 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2142
Docket Numbers: 99-56380, 99-56444
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a breach of contract claim for the sale and service of an air combat maneuvering range for use by Iran's military. At issue was whether confirmation of an arbitration award in favor of the Ministry of…
Date: December 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2141
Docket Number: 10-15332
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant and a group of allegedly similarly situated state prisoners brought suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against defendants, alleging that they were overdetained in violation of federal and state law. At issue was whether…
Date: December 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2140
Docket Number: 06-56649
Justia Opinion Summary: Three nonresidents of California brought a would-be class action against Oracle seeking damages under California law for failure to pay overtime. Plaintiffs' first two claims were based on work performed in California.…
Date: December 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2139
Docket Number: 08-56952
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted in California state court of first degree murder and subsequently appealed the district court's denial of his federal habeas petition. Petitioner challenged the admission at trial of the…
Date: December 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2138
Docket Number: 09-55898
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the adverse summary judgment grant in their 42 U.S.C. 1983 action arising out of the nighttime SWAT team search of their home for weapons suspected of being used in a drive-by shooting and stored in…
Date: December 8, 2011
Docket Number: 07-74047
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native of the Philippines, petitioned for review of an order of the BIA directing his removal, as well as the BIA's order denying reconsideration. The court held that the IJ was entitled to rely on…
Date: December 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2135
Docket Number: 09-50248
Justia Opinion Summary: In sentencing defendant following her conviction on immigration and bail-jumping charges, the district court made a number of comments suggesting that the length of the sentence imposed was determined at least in part by…
Date: December 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2136
Docket Number: 10-15641
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners challenged the prosecution's use of peremptory strikes to exclude black jurors in their trial. A magistrate judge, after holding an evidentiary hearing at which the prosecutor testified, found that he had…
Date: December 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2137
Docket Number: 10-35233
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, who had a history of depression and bipolar disorder, filed a complaint against the Board when she was terminated from her position when she failed to complete at least six semester hours of professional…
Date: December 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2132
Docket Number: 04-72167
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a lawful permanent resident of the United States, was ordered removed on the ground that he had been convicted of an aggravated felony. Petitioner contended that the evidence was insufficient to establish…
Date: December 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2133
Docket Number: 08-99025
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted in a California state court of first degree murder, with a finding of the special circumstance of killing a law enforcement officer engaged in the lawful pursuit of his duties, and was sentenced…
Date: December 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2134
Docket Number: 10-35465
Justia Opinion Summary: This litigation arose out of a franchise agreement between West Coast Hotels and Mahmoud Karimi. The successor in interest to West Coast Hotels was Red Lion, both were incorporated in Washington state. Karimi and his…
Date: December 5, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2131
Docket Number: 10-10245
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of fraud on two banks and was sentenced to one day of prison on each count and five years of supervised release, as well as restitution. Defendant subsequently violated his terms of supervised…
Date: December 5, 2011
Docket Number: 10-35397
Date: December 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2129
Docket Numbers: 10-15256, 10-16404
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal concerned the maintenance of a suit for rescission under section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. 78a et seq., by plaintiffs. The district court granted summary judgments to…
Date: December 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2130
Docket Number: 11-73630
Date: December 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2130
Docket Number: 11-73630
Justia Opinion Summary: In a petition for writ of mandamus, petitioners challenged the district court's order denying their motion to intervene and be heard at defendant-real party in interest's sentencing hearing as purported crime victims…
Date: December 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2127
Docket Numbers: 09-36051, 09-36058, 09-36080
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs challenged the 2006 Gallatin National Forest Management Plan prepared by the United States Forest Service, arguing that the travel plan violated the Montana Wilderness Study Act of 1977, 16 U.S.C. 1131. The…
Date: December 1, 2011
Docket Number: 09-72059
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitioned for review of a decision of the BIA determining that petitioner was ineligible for adjustment of status under section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act…
Date: December 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2128
Docket Number: 10-55643
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of the ban on compensation for human organs in the National Organ Transplant Act, 42 U.S.C. 274e, as applied to bone marrow transplants. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and…
Date: November 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2124
Docket Number: 06-74703
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Nicaragua, petitioned for review of an order of the BIA dismissing his appeal of an IJ's order of removal. The IJ determined that, under 8 C.F.R. 245.13(k)(1), petitioner had abandoned…
Date: November 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2125
Docket Number: 09-50426
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, a citizen of Mexico and an alien, pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement to violating 8 U.S.C. 1326(a) and 1326(b)(2) because he was found in the United States after having been removed or deported from…
Date: November 30, 2011
Docket Number: 10-15637
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and his children (plaintiffs) brought a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit against defendants for damages resulting from plaintiff's unlawful arrest. Plaintiff was arrested as he stood outside a fair selling promotional…
Date: November 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2126
Docket Numbers: 11-55851, 11-55852
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the district court's preliminary injunction precluding enforcement of California Welfare and Institutions Code 14105.191(f), which amended California's Medicaid Plan and set provider reimbursement…
Date: November 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2121
Docket Number: 09-16362
Justia Opinion Summary: After his unsuccessful cataract surgery, plaintiff brought a claim for battery against the United States government and his United States Navy surgeon. The United States invoked the Gonzalez Act, 10 U.S.C. 1089,…
Date: November 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2122
Docket Number: 10-16524
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed from the dismissal of his claims against two arbitrators who disqualified him from representing a client. The district court concluded that the claims were barred by arbitral immunity. The court held…
Date: November 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2123
Docket Number: 10-50254
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the district court's imposition of a residency restriction as a special condition of supervised release, following his conviction and sentencing for one count of violating 18 U.S.C. 2423(c), which…
Date: November 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2120
Docket Numbers: 09-36100, 10-35043, 10-35052, 10-35053, 10-35054
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (Service) removal of the Yellowstone grizzly bear from the threatened species list. The court affirmed the district court's ruling that the Service failed to…
Date: November 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2115
Docket Number: 09-15808
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of Arizona answered questions that the court certified to that court. Specifically, it had determined that the rule of American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah did not toll the statute of repose for…
Date: November 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2116
Docket Number: 10-10144
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to one count of witness intimidation and subsequently assisted the government in prosecuting several of his former criminal associates. At issue was whether the district court could consider factors…
Date: November 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2117
Docket Number: 10-55129
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a proposed class action settlement between AOL and plaintiffs where the parties agreed that AOL would make a series of charitable donations. At issue was whether the district court abused its…
Date: November 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2118
Docket Number: 10-72478
Justia Opinion Summary: The NLRB petitioned for enforcement of its order finding that Legacy Health violated sections 8(a)(1) and (3) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. 158(a)(1) and (3) by not allowing its employees to…
Date: November 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2119
Docket Number: 11-50117
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed from an oral order denying his request for appointment of new counsel and permitting him to proceed pro se. Defendant was charged in a superseding indictment with one count of being a previously…
Date: November 18, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2112
Docket Number: 09-55264
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2254, claiming that his due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated based on…
Date: November 18, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2113
Docket Number: 09-71661
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitioned for review of a decision by the BIA affirming a decision of the IJ to deny petitioner's application for withholding of removal and withholding and deferral of…
Date: November 18, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2114
Docket Number: 10-16527
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed from the judgment of the district court dismissing his action against the State of Arizona and individual officials employed by the Arizona Department of Corrections for alleged negligence and alleged…
Date: November 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2110
Docket Number: 10-36184
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a Federal Employee Compensation Act (FECA), 5 U.S.C. 8131, 8132, claim after he was injured in a helicopter crash and received benefits totaling $409,838.11. Plaintiff then filed a civil suit against the…
Date: November 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2111
Docket Number: 11-80283
Date: November 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2111
Docket Number: 11-80283
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner filed a motion for a stay of execution pending the United States Supreme Court decision in Martinez v. Ryan. Petitioner sought a stay of his impending execution, leave to file successive petitions for habeas…
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: 08-16728
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: 08-16728
Date: November 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2108
Docket Number: 10-35596
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Revett Silver Company in an action brought pursuant to Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, 16…
Date: November 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2109
Docket Number: 11-35940
Date: November 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2109
Docket Number: 11-35940
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed from the district court's denial of his emergency motion for preliminary injunction or stay of execution. The district court held that the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) had provided…
Date: November 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2107
Docket Number: 09-56965
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff brought this securities fraud action against defendant, a biotechnology company and several of its officers, alleging that, by misstating and failing to disclose safety information about two of the company's…
Date: November 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2102
Docket Number: 06-71680
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitioned for review of an order of the BIA upholding the IJ's denial of registry, cancellation of removal, and voluntary departure on grounds of alleged constitutional…
Date: November 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2103
Docket Number: 09-35892
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued defendants, employees of the State of Washington's State Operated Living Alternative (SOLA) program, on behalf of herself and her daughter's estate under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that defendants deprived…
Date: November 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2104
Docket Number: 09-50502
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and requested that the district court recommend a southern California housing designation to the Bureau of Prisons. At the sentencing…
Date: November 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2105
Docket Numbers: 10-15561, 10-15670
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, the former General Counsel of McAfee, alleged that McAfee maliciously prosecuted and defamed him in an attempt to deflect attention from large-scale backdating of stock options within the company. McAfee moved…
Date: November 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2106
Docket Number: 10-36012
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellee pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to engage in human trafficking, and admitted that between 2001 and December 22, 2003, he conspired with others to provide controlled substances to several minors and…
Date: November 4, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2101
Docket Number: 10-35636
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendants, county officers and the county, alleging a state law wrongful death claim and a 42 U.S.C. 1983 claim for excessive force under the Fourth Amendment when her 18-year-old son was…
Date: November 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2098
Docket Number: 09-55846
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, four citizens of Iran who came to the United States at various times due to their long-standing opposition to that nation's theocratic regime, sued defendants, raising a number of claims including unlawful…
Date: November 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2099
Docket Number: 10-16150
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, current or former "franchisee" shuttle van drivers for SuperShuttle in various parts of California, filed a putative class action alleging that plaintiffs were misclassified as "independent contractors" when,…
Date: November 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2100
Docket Number: 11-50268
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed from the district court's order finding him in violation of his conditions of supervised release based upon his use of marijuana. Defendant asserted that because he had a recommendation from a…
Date: November 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2097
Docket Number: 08-73004
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner petitioned for review of the BIA's dismissal of his appeal of an IJ's decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. The BIA concluded that petitioner's 1992 parole as a Special Immigrant…
Date: November 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2095
Docket Number: 09-17510
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, the personal representative of the Estate of Gaye S. Glaser, appealed the district court's affirmance of the Medicare Appeals Council's (MAC) ruling that Kaiser was not required to pay for Glaser's liver…
Date: November 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2096
Docket Number: 10-50192
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his convictions for importation and possession of cocaine. On appeal, defendant asserted that the last statement made by the prosecution in its closing rebuttal argument rendered the trial unfair and…
Date: November 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2096
Docket Number: 10-50192
Date: October 31, 2011
Docket Number: 10-56465
Date: October 31, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2094
Docket Number: 11-55563
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner sought injunctive relief in district court pursuant to section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 29 U.S.C. 160(j), alleging that CHHP was a successor employer to Karykeion and that a majority…
Date: October 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2091
Docket Number: 09-10330
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from defendant's operation of a fraudulent investment fund. Defendant's Ponzi scheme took almost $13 million from over 50 investors and petitioners were among the investors. Petitioners appealed the…
Date: October 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2092
Docket Numbers: 10-10430, 10-10431, 10-10444
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants, David Ray Newman and Jon Tedesco, committed crimes that subject them to criminal forfeiture: Newman robbed two banks, and Tedesco conspired to defraud banks. Defendants each pleaded guilty and agreed to…
Date: October 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2093
Docket Number: 10-35574
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, an Oregon state prisoner, appealed the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. 2254 habeas corpus petition, arguing that the evidence presented was constitutionally insufficient for a rational jury to find…
Date: October 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2086
Docket Number: 09-15330
Justia Opinion Summary: Over the course of more than 30 years, petitioner was convicted of crimes involving deviant sexual acts with children. After a series of unsuccessful appeals and postconviction procedures, petitioner filed a federal…
Date: October 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2087
Docket Number: 09-55998
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254. At issue was whether the California trial court's use of California Jury Instruction, Criminal…
Date: October 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2088
Docket Number: 10-10550
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant plead guilty to possession of child pornography. At issue on appeal was whether 18 U.S.C. 2251(d)(1)(A) required an individual to personally produce the sexually explicit visual depictions of minors that he…
Date: October 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2089
Docket Number: 10-35732
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the denial of his application for disability insurance benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 401-34. Plaintiff claimed he was disabled by thoracic spine and lumbar spine…
Date: October 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2090
Docket Number: 10-55235
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a deadly use of force lawsuit filed by decedent's family against defendants. The district court issued an in limine order precluding defendants from arguing that decedent was armed when he was shot.…
Date: October 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2090
Docket Number: 10-55235
Date: October 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2083
Docket Numbers: 02-56256, 02-56390, 09-56381
Justia Opinion Summary: This Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 U.S.C. 1350, case arose out of the operations of Rio Tinto mining group on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the uprising against Rio Tinto in the late 1980's that…
Date: October 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2084
Docket Number: 09-35174
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when plaintiffs voluntarily filed applications for adjustment of status in reliance on the Ninth Circuit's opinion in Perez-Gonzalez v. Ashcroft, wherein the court purportedly held that individuals like…
Date: October 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2085
Docket Number: 09-56515
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's decision affirming the Social Security Administration's (SSA) denial of her applications for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income. The court held that…
Date: October 24, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2080
Docket Numbers: 08-55165, 08-55280
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent appealed the district court's order granting petitioner a conditional writ of habeas corpus. At issue was whether the petition was timely; even assuming the petition was deemed timely, whether there was error…
Date: October 24, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2081
Docket Number: 10-30313
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when defendant was accused of drunk driving on the Kitsap Naval Base in Bremerton, Washington. At issue was whether the Government violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S.…
Date: October 24, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2082
Docket Number: 10-72147
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Ethiopia, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision affirming the IJ's conclusion that petitioner was statutorily ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal because…
Date: October 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2078
Docket Number: 08-50063
Justia Opinion Summary: This case centered around the political corruption of former California Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham, who provided lucrative government defense contracts to defendant and others in exchange for expensive meals,…
Date: October 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2079
Docket Number: 10-50051
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed her jury conviction for one count of conspiracy, one count of bank fraud, and thirteen counts of loan fraud. On appeal, defendant contended that the district court committed prejudicial error by…
Date: October 18, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2076
Docket Number: 09-56714
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when plaintiff hired defendant to move some of his household goods from southern California to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). When the UAE officials discovered plaintiff's box of firearms and ammunition,…
Date: October 18, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2077
Docket Number: 10-36001
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal presented the question of whether a provision of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Pub. L. No. 104-191, 110 Stat. 1936, preempted Montana's "little HIPAA" law, Mont.…
Date: October 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2075
Docket Numbers: 08-15567, 08-35526
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, both women who were tased during an encounter with officers, filed a suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 seeking damages for the alleged violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. At issue was whether the use of a…
Date: October 14, 2011
Docket Number: 08-56415
Date: October 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2074
Docket Number: 10-10517
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his sentence of three years' imprisonment for unlawfully exporting PVS-14 Gen 3 night-vision devices in violation of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), 22 U.S.C. 2778. These devices, designed for…
Date: October 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2069
Docket Numbers: 08-71827, 08-74439, 08-74443
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from FERC's statutory mandate set out in the Federal Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. 824-824w, to ensure that all rates and charges made, demanded, or received by power wholesalers were just and reasonable.…
Date: October 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2070
Docket Number: 09-50285
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his jury conviction for assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of a contraband in prison. On appeal, defendant argued that the district court abused its discretion by refusing to instruct the…
Date: October 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2071
Docket Number: 10-10323
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, the former Chief Executive Officer of Brocade Communications (Brocade or the Company), a company the developed and sold data switches for networks, appealed his conviction in a second criminal trial for…
Date: October 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2072
Docket Number: 10-10433
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted, on a plea of guilty, of serving as an airman without an airman's certificate. Defendant appealed from his sentence on the ground that the district court procedurally erred by sentencing him…
Date: October 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2073
Docket Number: 10-30274
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of robbery and aiding and abetting robbery in Indian country in violation of U.S.C. 1153(a) and 2111. On appeal, defendant contended that the government did not present sufficient evidence to…
Date: October 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2067
Docket Number: 08-99016
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a death row inmate, appealed the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner raised three grounds for relief: (1) petitioner claimed that the state failed to disclose an…
Date: October 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2068
Docket Numbers: 10-35623, 10-35784
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from the USFS's issuance of a revised Travel Management Plan governing recreational motorized and nonmotorized use on 1.1 million acres of the Lewis and Clark National Forest, including the Middle Fork…
Date: October 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2066
Docket Number: 07-70638
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Peru, sought review of a decision by the BIA denying his motion to reopen on the ground that petitioner had failed to voluntarily depart. The court held that where, as here, a period…
Date: October 4, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2065
Docket Number: 08-99007
Justia Opinion Summary: During petitioner's murder trial, defense counsel failed to object to the prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges to strike six Hispanic venirepersons. Petitioner appealed the district court's denial of his petition…
Date: October 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2061
Docket Number: 09-10250
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his sentence of 25 months' imprisonment plus five years of supervised release following his guilty plea to ten counts of embezzlement under 18 U.S.C. 656, and eight counts of bank fraud under 18 U.S.C.…
Date: October 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2062
Docket Number: 09-30442
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted after a three-day jury trial of four counts of injecting fluids into deep wells without a permit, in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), 42 U.S.C. 300h-2(b)(2). Defendant was also…
Date: October 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2063
Docket Number: 10-35793
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from Suzlon's demand that Microsoft produce documents from the Microsoft Hotmail email account of Rajagopalan Sridhar, an Indian citizen imprisoned abroad. Microsoft objected to the production and the…
Date: October 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2064
Docket Number: 11-16862
Date: October 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2064
Docket Number: 11-16862
Justia Opinion Summary: The Attorneys General of Washington and California filed parens patriae actions in their states' courts alleging that defendants engaged in a conspiracy to fix the prices of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display…
Date: September 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2059
Docket Number: 09-10396
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed from his conditional guilty plea to receiving material involving the sexual exploitation of minors in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(2). Defendant challenged the district court's denial of his motion…
Date: September 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2060
Docket Number: 10-30222
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, owner and operator the Custer Battlefield Museum, was investigated in 2005 for unlawfully attempting to sell migratory bird parts and for fraudulently misrepresenting the provenance of historical artifacts for…
Date: September 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2058
Docket Numbers: 10-56634, 10-56813
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff brought this suit in 2004, challenging the constitutionality of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, 10 U.S.C. 654(b). While an appeal was pending in this case, Congress enacted the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal…
Date: September 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2054
Docket Number: 10-15113
Justia Opinion Summary: Apple brought this action against Psystar for copyright infringement because Psystar was using Apple's software on Psystar computers. The district court held that Psystar was infringing Apple's federally registered…
Date: September 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2055
Docket Number: 10-15222
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, representing a putative class of purchasers of contact lens solutions, appealed the district court's order granting summary judgment for defendant. Plaintiffs brought suit alleging that defendant violated…
Date: September 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2056
Docket Number: 10-35789
Justia Opinion Summary: Taxpayers appealed the district court's denial of their Rule 60(b) motion to vacate a 1967 tax judgment against them. Taxpayers argued that the government committed fraud on the court during their 1967 suppression…
Date: September 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2057
Docket Number: 10-50280
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of illegal reentry in 2004, escape, and a second count of illegal reentry with a found-in date of June 7, 2007. Defendant appealed his conviction on the second illegal reentry offense, challenging…
Date: September 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2045
Docket Number: 06-73470
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of China, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision denying his applications for adjustment of status, asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against…
Date: September 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2046
Docket Numbers: 06-74309, 09-70779
Justia Opinion Summary: In consolidated petitions for review, petitioner challenged two decisions by the BIA: first, challenging the finding that she was statutorily ineligible for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the…
Date: September 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2047
Docket Number: 08-15620
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a Washington State prisoner, sought relief under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for alleged violations of his First and Fourteenth Amendment right of access to the courts and alleged supplemental state law claims for…
Date: September 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2048
Docket Number: 09-17477
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a former recruiter for Nielsen Media Research, Inc. (Nielsen), appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment on her age and disability discrimination and wrongful termination claims under California…
Date: September 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2049
Docket Number: 09-99004
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was sentenced to death for the murder of two thirteen-year-old girls. Defendant challenged his sentence under 28 U.S.C. 2254, arguing that he should receive an evidentiary hearing to develop the claim that his…
Date: September 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2050
Docket Number: 10-10571
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty for violating 18 U.S.C. 704(a), which prohibited the unauthorized wearing of military medals, where defendant fraudulently obtained a Purple Heart and wore it in public. On appeal, defendant…
Date: September 26, 2011
Docket Number: 10-16916
Date: September 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2051
Docket Number: 10-50074
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, a former Boeing engineer who gave technological information to China, appealed his convictions on six counts of violating the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (EEA), 18 U.S.C. 1831(a)(1), (3); on one count of…
Date: September 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2052
Docket Number: 10-50399
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed from the district court's denial in part of his motion to reduce his sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(2). Defendant contended that the district court's modification of his sentence to the…
Date: September 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2053
Docket Number: 10-56465
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when the Port of Los Angeles prohibited motor carriers from operating drayage trucks on port property unless the motor carriers entered into concession agreements with the port. The concession agreements…
Date: September 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2040
Docket Number: 07-10607
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted by a jury of nine counts of bank fraud, two counts of fraudulent use of an access device, two counts of attempted fraudulent use of an access device, two counts of laundering monetary instruments,…
Date: September 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2041
Docket Number: 10-35032
Justia Opinion Summary: The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a part of the United States Department of Treasury, froze the assets of Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, Oregon (AHIF-Oregon), a non-profit organization, and designated…
Date: September 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2042
Docket Number: 10-35776
Justia Opinion Summary: The Tribes of the Yakima Nation claimed that the principle of Indian tax immunity had been violated by the State of Washington's current cigarette excise tax, which the Tribes argued left their retailers liable for…
Date: September 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2043
Docket Number: 10-50313
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty for unlawfully attempting to reenter the United States after having previously been removed. At issue was whether the district court erroneously held that defendant's petty theft convictions each…
Date: September 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2044
Docket Number: 10-55379
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant appealed the district court's decision, on summary judgment, that letters sent by appellant to nearly 40,000 California residents constituted "false, deceptive, or misleading representation[s]... in connection…
Date: September 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2037
Docket Numbers: 08-56110, 08-56112, 08-56114
Justia Opinion Summary: This case was brought pursuant to the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. 1125(d)(1) over the registered domain name "gopets.com." The main issue on appeal was whether the term "registration"…
Date: September 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2038
Docket Number: 09-16142
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus, challenging the California Board of Parole Hearings' (Board) denial of his parole. Defendant, the warden, appealed the district court's order instructing the Board to…
Date: September 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2039
Docket Number: 09-73625
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a citizen and national of Honduras, filed an application for deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The BIA denied the application, concluding that petitioner had not established that…
Date: September 21, 2011
Docket Number: 09-55698
Date: September 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2035
Docket Number: 10-35206
Justia Opinion Summary: This case was related to certain documents produced in discovery and filed in the bankruptcy court, containing allegations that Father M and D, two priests who were not parties to the Portland Archdiocese's bankruptcy…
Date: September 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2036
Docket Numbers: 10-55658, 10-55660, 10-55662, 10-55663, 10-55664, 10-55665, 10-55667, 10-55668
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, individual homeowners, sued defendants, some of the nation's largest housing developers, seeking damages, attorneys fees and costs, and the option to rescind their home purchases due to defendants' fraud,…
Date: September 20, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2030
Docket Number: 08-10579
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of, among other things, shipping and receiving firearms through interstate commerce while using a controlled substance, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3) because defendant illegally grew and…
Date: September 20, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2031
Docket Number: 09-55963
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff brought suit against the Dealership and Porsche when the pre-owned car that she purchased from the Dealership developed serious mechanical problems during the warranty period and the Dealership refused to honor…
Date: September 20, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2032
Docket Number: 09-56949
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff brought suit against Toyota when the new car that she leased developed mechanical problems during the warranty period and Toyota failed to repair them to her satisfaction. In addition to several California…
Date: September 20, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2033
Docket Number: 10-10223
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of misdemeanor possession of methamphetamine possession and sentenced to three years' probation. Defendant appealed his conviction and two conditions of probation, one permitting suspicionless…
Date: September 20, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2034
Docket Number: 10-50341
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed from his conviction for importation of marijuana and possession of marijuana. Defendant contended, inter alia, that the district court erred by preventing him from presenting evidence of duress at…
Date: September 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2027
Docket Number: 08-71086
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner sought, inter alia, to reopen his immigration proceedings by raising challenges to, or seeking an exception to, the April 26, 2005, deadline to seek relief under former section 212(c) of the Immigration and…
Date: September 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2028
Docket Number: 09-55880
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when the SEC instituted an enforcement action against several companies, which, among other things, led to the court appointment of a receiver. Debtor was an attorney who represented some of the…
Date: September 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2029
Docket Number: 10-35519
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs alleged that defendant, a non-profit Christian organization operating a residential drug treatment program and two homeless shelters, engaged in religious discrimination in providing shelter and residential…
Date: September 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2025
Docket Numbers: 06-55750, 06-56869
Justia Opinion Summary: Day-laborer organizations challenged a city anti-solicitation ordinance that barred individuals from standing on a street or highway and soliciting, or attempting to solicit, business, or contributions from an occupant…
Date: September 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2025
Docket Number: 06-55750
Date: September 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2026
Docket Number: 07-15838
Justia Opinion Summary: Costco appealed the district court's order granting class certification in a class action brought by Shirley Ellis, Leah Horstman, and Elaine Sasaki (plaintiffs), alleging that Costco's promotional practices…
Date: September 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2024
Docket Numbers: 09-72457, 09-72458
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from a tax transaction involving Henry Samueli, the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, and his investment advisor. At issue was whether a purported securities loan with a fixed term of at least 250…
Date: September 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2019
Docket Number: 06-72111
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner timely petitioned for review of the BIA's decision affirming the IJ's holding that defendant was ineligible for cancellation of removal because his domestic violence conviction constituted an "aggravated…
Date: September 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2020
Docket Number: 08-56484
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the district court's dismissal of his habeas petition as untimely, and not subject to statutory tolling. Petitioner's petition challenged his jury conviction in California state court for murder and…
Date: September 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2021
Docket Number: 10-10177
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his 52-month sentence imposed following his open plea of guilty to a single-count indictment charging him with illegal re-entry after deportation. The court held that, after considering the state court…
Date: September 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2022
Docket Number: 10-50069
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his 70-month below-Guidelines sentence of incarceration for illegal reentry after a prior deportation. The court held that, because a conviction for willful infliction of corporal injury on a spouse,…
Date: September 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2023
Docket Number: 10-50306
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the 46-month sentence of imprisonment imposed following his guilty plea to one count of illegal reentry. The court held that because it agreed with the district court that a conviction for forcible…
Date: September 13, 2011
Docket Number: 08-16676
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. 1155 motion to correct a federal sentencing enhancement imposed on account of his Utah conviction for burglarizing a "dwelling." At issue was whether the…
Date: September 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2013
Docket Number: 10-10045
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from an indictment charging defendant with two counts of transporting an illegal alien for profit. At issue was whether a district court could, in the absence of a motion for a new trial by the…
Date: September 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2014
Docket Number: 10-15229
Justia Opinion Summary: Protrero Hills Landfill, a privately owned solid waste and recycling business in Solano County, and twenty-two related businesses appealed the dismissal on Younger v. Harris abstention grounds of their 42 U.S.C. 1983…
Date: September 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2015
Docket Number: 10-15248
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff foster children appeal the dismissal of their class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, in which they alleged that the caseloads of the Sacramento County Dependency Court and court-appointed attorneys were so…
Date: September 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2016
Docket Number: 10-16736
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a frequent filer of lawsuits and indigent, sought money damages and other relief against defendant resulting from an alleged mistreatment of plaintiff when he was a prisoner. Plaintiff appealed the district…
Date: September 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2017
Docket Number: 10-55445
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a high school math teacher, filed suit in federal court alleging that the school district violated his constitutional rights by making him remove banners he displayed in his classroom which referenced "God"…
Date: September 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2018
Docket Number: 10-72981
Justia Opinion Summary: The court reviewed a petition by the Union from an order of the NLRB (Board) dismissing a complaint alleging unfair labor practices by Employers. The Union alleged that the Employers violated sections 8(a)(1) and 8(a)(5)…
Date: September 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2010
Docket Number: 08-17558
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when federal law enforcement officers seized funds from passengers who were temporarily in the Atlanta airport changing planes. The travelers truthfully explained that the funds were legal gambling…
Date: September 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2011
Docket Numbers: 09-56427, 09-56686
Justia Opinion Summary: Chevron, the franchisor, brought suit for declaratory judgment against one of its franchised dealers, M&M Petroleum Services, Inc. M&M responded with a counterclaim of its own, a counterclaim that was not only found to…
Date: September 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2012
Docket Numbers: 10-15909, 10-16015
Justia Opinion Summary: Louis Vuitton sued Managed Solutions Group, Inc. (MSG), Akanoc Solutions, Inc., and Steven Chen (collectively, Defendants) for contributory copyright and trademark infringement, contending that Defendants were liable for…
Date: September 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2008
Docket Number: 06-75319
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitioned for review of the BIA's order affirming the IJ's decision that petitioner did not suffer from ineffective assistance of counsel and declining to address the…
Date: September 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2009
Docket Number: 10-35590
Justia Opinion Summary: The Secretary of Labor filed a complaint against the State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), alleging that DSHS failed to pay overtime compensation to certain social workers in violation of…
Date: September 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2004
Docket Number: 07-70056
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a citizen and national of India, petitioned for review of the BIA's decisions. At issue was whether petitioner established changed or extraordinary circumstances that would excuse his untimely application for…
Date: September 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2005
Docket Number: 09-16078
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a minor with dyslexia, by and through her mother and Guardian Ad Litem, appealed from the district court's order affirming the Administrative Hearing Officer's conclusion that the Hawaii Department of…
Date: September 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2006
Docket Numbers: 10-35458, 10-35592, 10-35611
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, 134 farmers whose crops suffered as a result of the federal Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) use of the herbicide Oust, sued the federal government and Oust's manufacturer (DuPont). Both the jury and the…
Date: September 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2007
Docket Number: 10-50391
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for one count of importation of marijuana and one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. The court held that it was an abuse of discretion to allow the government to…
Date: September 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2001
Docket Number: 08-99006
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted defendant of felony murder and/or aiding and abetting felony murder, but acquitted him of premeditated murder. The trial judge then imposed the death penalty. Defendant subsequently appealed the district…
Date: September 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2002
Docket Number: 09-17364
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from a putative class action challenging origination and foreclosure procedures for home loans maintained within the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS). Plaintiffs appealed from the…
Date: September 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2003
Docket Number: 10-30254
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of possession of methamphetamine and oxycodone with intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of a firearm and an armed career criminal, and with possession of a firearm during the…
Date: September 6, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1997
Docket Number: 07-99019
Justia Opinion Summary: Over thirty years ago, petitioner was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1979 kidnapping, rape, and murder of a sixteen-year-old female. Petitioner subsequently appealed the district court's denial of habeas…
Date: September 6, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1998
Docket Number: 09-17151
Justia Opinion Summary: The Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute (SPOSFI) and Mary Figone appealed the district court's judgment rejecting their facial First Amendment and vagueness challenges to portions of "Proposition M," a…
Date: September 6, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1999
Docket Number: 10-16797
Justia Opinion Summary: The State of Arizona appealed the district court's order granting a preliminary injunction to prevent a state law from taking effect that would have terminated eligibility for healthcare benefits of state employees'…
Date: September 6, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 2000
Docket Number: 10-50521
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, a native and citizen of Mexico, challenged his conviction for illegal reentry after removal on the ground that the removal order on which the conviction was based was invalid. The court held that in light of…
Date: September 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1993
Docket Number: 07-99020
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of first degree murder and rape and the attempted murder of two individuals. Defendant was sentenced to death. On appeal, defendant appealed two procedural issues: whether counsel rendered…
Date: September 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1994
Docket Numbers: 09-56786, 09-56846
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved the family-sponsored immigration process where appellants were legal permanent residents of the United States and their children were no longer under the age of 21. At issue was whether appellants'…
Date: September 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1995
Docket Number: 10-35933
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued Holland American, alleging that the cruise line breached its duty to warn him of the dangers associated with swimming on the Pacific Ocean side of Lover's Beach on Mexico's Baja Peninsula. The district…
Date: September 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1996
Docket Numbers: 10-55361, 10-55404
Justia Opinion Summary: This dispute emerged from state and federal litigation over liability for damages and defense costs in certain environmental tort suits. At issue was an action for damages that appellants brought in federal court and a…
Date: September 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1988
Docket Number: 07-71027
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of China, petitioned for review of a decision of the BIA affirming the IJ's decision denying asylum in the exercise of its discretion. The BIA's decision balanced the likelihood of…
Date: September 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1989
Docket Number: 09-30334
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of attempting to possess a controlled substance with the intent to distribute and sentenced to 180 months in prison. On appeal, defendant alleged that the district court erred under Apprendi v.…
Date: September 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1990
Docket Number: 09-56698
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the district court's dismissal pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) of their putative consumer class action against defendants. Plaintiffs also appealed the district court's denial of…
Date: September 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1991
Docket Number: 10-15067
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted by a jury in an Arizona state court of first degree murder. Defendant subsequently petitioned for federal habeas relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254, raising, inter alia, the same ineffective…
Date: September 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1992
Docket Number: 10-30132
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. At issue was whether defendant was entitled, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C.…
Date: August 31, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1987
Docket Number: 09-16609
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a federal complaint against officers and the Mount Shasta Police Department pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that the officers violated his Fourth Amendment rights when they entered his home without a…
Date: August 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1985
Docket Number: 10-30125
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of child molestation in Washington state and sentenced to two years confinement. At issue was whether the government must prove that a defendant knew that the Sex Offender Registration and…
Date: August 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1986
Docket Numbers: 10-35230, 10-35846
Justia Opinion Summary: This case originated with a misunderstanding regarding a $645 charge on the credit card bill of appellant. Chase Bank misidentified the basis for the charge but failed to respond to appellant's requests for information…
Date: August 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1984
Docket Numbers: 08-17089, 10-72727, 10-73383, 10-73561
Justia Opinion Summary: These consolidated cases arose out of a 2007 labor dispute between the Painters Union and Nevada contractors over whether the Union's card check established its majority status under the terms of the collective…
Date: August 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1979
Docket Numbers: 09-16375, 09-17479, 09-17481
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from plaintiff's detention as an undocumented immigrant where plaintiff claimed that various authorities deprived him of medication for his schizophrenia and that the detention resulted from the…
Date: August 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1980
Docket Numbers: 09-55586, 10-55496
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's decision granting defendants' motion to strike plaintiff's defamation suit under California's anti-SLAPP statute. Cal.Civ. Proc. Code 425.16. Plaintiff argued that the district…
Date: August 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1981
Docket Number: 09-56372
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a traffic stop for a seatbelt violation in which a Los Angeles County Sheriff pepper sprayed plaintiff and struck him with a baton after plaintiff exited his vehicle and disobeyed the Sheriff's order…
Date: August 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1982
Docket Number: 10-15595
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, 37-years-old, suffered from anorexia nervosa for more than twenty years. At issue was whether defendant was required to pay for her care at a residential treatment facility, either under the terms of her…
Date: August 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1983
Docket Number: 10-16384
Justia Opinion Summary: This was an appeal by objector, a Nevada attorney, seeking review of the Nevada district court's order denying his motion to quash a subpoena for bank records of his client trust account. The district court concluded…
Date: August 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1976
Docket Number: 10-35085
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and his wife filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action against defendants, alleging, among other things, that police officers violated their Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by securing the search and arrest warrants…
Date: August 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1977
Docket Number: 10-70718
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners challenged an order of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) concerning the proposed construction by the Port of Portland of a new runway at Hillsboro Airport (HIO). On appeal, petitioners argued that the…
Date: August 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1978
Docket Number: 10-71066
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner sought review of a decision of the BIA affirming the IJ's finding of removeability and denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. The BIA affirmed the IJ's conclusion that petitioner, who…
Date: August 24, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1973
Docket Number: 09-10294
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant appealed his conviction on various counts related to transporting and harboring illegal aliens. Appellant challenged the district court's decision to admit into evidence videotaped deposition testimony of…
Date: August 24, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1974
Docket Number: 10-16193
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, a class of economically vulnerable Arizonians who receive public health care benefits through the state's Medicaid agency, sued the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) and the Director of…
Date: August 24, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1975
Docket Number: 10-50134
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of attempted entry after deportation in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1326(a) and (b). On appeal, defendant claimed that the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA)…
Date: August 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1970
Docket Number: 09-55024
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's dismissal of her ERISA, 29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq., action against defendant as not timely filed. Plaintiff was employed by defendant as a stockbroker in 1979 and starting in 1982,…
Date: August 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1971
Docket Number: 09-72389
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from the IRS's investigation of a type of tax shelter known as a "Son-of-Boss" (a variant of the Bond and Options Sales Strategy (BOSS) shelter). Petitioner appealed the Tax Court's decision in favor of…
Date: August 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1972
Docket Numbers: 10-55401, 10-55464, 10-55468
Justia Opinion Summary: WPP Luxembourg Gamma Three Sarl (WPP) appealed from the district court's dismissal of the amended complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Defendant and cross-appellants cross-appealed the district…
Date: August 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1964
Docket Numbers: 08-56065, 09-56126, 10-55341
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants appealed the district court's denial of certification of their putative class action in Mancini v. Ticketmaster; Stearns v. Ticketmaster, and Johnson v. Ticketmaster. Appellants' actions were directed against…
Date: August 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1965
Docket Number: 09-10034
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for failing to register as a sex offender and challenged the legality of the Attorney General's interim regulation for failure to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5…
Date: August 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1966
Docket Number: 09-16573
Justia Opinion Summary: While handcuffed in the back seat of a patrol car, Everardo Torres (Everardo) was mortally mounded when a Madera City Police Officer shot him in the chest with her Glock semiautomatic pistol, believing it at the time to…
Date: August 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1967
Docket Number: 10-15637
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and his children (plaintiffs) brought a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit against defendants for damages resulting from plaintiff's unlawful arrest. Plaintiff was arrested as he stood outside a fair selling promotional…
Date: August 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1968
Docket Number: 10-35987
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants appealed from the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction against them in an action for copyright infringement by plaintiff. The district court found that plaintiff was likely to succeed in its…
Date: August 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1969
Docket Number: 10-50248
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his misdemeanor convictions, after retrial, of three counts of violating 18 U.S.C. 1382. Defendant's charges arose from his protest activities on Ocean Avenue, which was a public road that crossed the…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1953
Docket Number: 03-74442
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitioned for review of a decision of the BIA ordering him removed to his native country. The BIA affirmed the IJ's ruling that petitioner was ineligible for asylum,…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1954
Docket Number: 06-56278
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, on behalf of himself and similarly situated individuals, brought an action against Chase, alleging that it increased his interest rates retroactively to the beginning of this payment cycle after his account…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1955
Docket Number: 08-71315
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of China, petitioned for review of the BIA's denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The court held that…
Date: August 19, 2011
Docket Number: 09-55203
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1956
Docket Number: 09-56317
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal stemmed from the district court's summary judgment dismissing Fleischer Studios, Inc.'s (Fleischer) copyright and trademark infringement action where the district court ruled that Fleischer held neither a…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1957
Docket Number: 09-56498
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a federal civil rights action against the county, alleging violation of her constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection. Plaintiff alleged that the county harassed her in retaliation of her…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1958
Docket Number: 09-56683
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed 26 putative class actions against defendants, alleging that defendants knowingly failed to disclose the potential risk of noise-induced hearing loss associated with extended use of their wireless…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1959
Docket Numbers: 09-56689, 09-56690
Justia Opinion Summary: A former public high school student alleged that his history teacher violated his rights under the Establishment Clause by making comments during class that were hostile to religion in general, and to Christianity in…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1960
Docket Numbers: 10-35497, 10-35543
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when the Washington State Department of Health (Department) would not license Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (Memorial) to perform certain procedures known as elective percutaneous coronary interventions…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1961
Docket Number: 10-35646
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from a challenge by environmental groups to a proposed incremental drawdown of water from Lake Roosevelt in eastern Washington. At issue was whether the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) took a…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1962
Docket Number: 10-50256
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Defendant appealed the denial of his motion to have his sentence…
Date: August 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1963
Docket Number: 11-55712
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was the target of a grand jury investigation seeking to determine whether he used secret Swiss bank accounts to evade paying federal taxes. The district court granted a motion to compel appellant's compliance…
Date: August 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1949
Docket Number: 09-36130
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellee sued Mary Lafond, DSHS's Child Study and Treatment Center's (CSTC) CEO, and Norman Webster, the Director of Nursing Services, under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for violating her Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process…
Date: August 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1950
Docket Number: 09-56447
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a disabled individual who required the use of a motorized wheelchair to get around, filed a lawsuit against defendants, alleging that a Food 4 Less grocery store in Chula Vista, California did not comply with…
Date: August 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1951
Docket Numbers: 10-15167, 10-15308
Justia Opinion Summary: In these consolidated appeals, respondents appealed the district court's order granting petitioner's, an enrolled member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, amended petition for writ of habeas corpus. At issue was whether the…
Date: August 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1952
Docket Number: 10-15180
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, an employee of the Veterans Health Administration, submitted eight requests under the Freedom of Information Act, (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552, and the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a, primarily asking for emails to and…
Date: August 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1948
Docket Number: 09-56395
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when a student told a police officer that her teacher, plaintiff, inappropriately touched her and police subsequently searched plaintiff's home for child pornography. Plaintiff and his son sued the police…
Date: August 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1944
Docket Numbers: 08-17091, 09-15753
Justia Opinion Summary: This consolidated appeal asked the court to consider the constitutionality of the Nevada Department of Corrections' (NDOC) policy prohibiting inmates' personal possession of typewriters. NDOC inmates appealed pro se the…
Date: August 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1945
Docket Number: 10-16715
Justia Opinion Summary: This interlocutory appeal arose from an action instituted in the district court to stop the government from rounding up, destroying, and auctioning off wild horses and burros in the Twin Peaks Herd Management Area on the…
Date: August 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1946
Docket Numbers: 10-35751, 10-35779
Justia Opinion Summary: These appeals involved two essentially identical actions filed in two different states by different groups of plaintiffs, each seeking to represent a class. The actions sought damages on the ground that plaintiffs'…
Date: August 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1947
Docket Number: 10-50336
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in connection with his membership in the Mongols Motorcycle Club, a motorcycle gang. On appeal, defendant challenged his convictions and…
Date: August 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1939
Docket Number: 06-73369
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision denying asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) but remanding the case to the…
Date: August 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1940
Docket Number: 08-56283
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal concerned the requirements of due process when law enforcement officers charged with felonies were suspended without pay. The officers brought claims under 42 U.S.C. 1983 in federal district court, alleging…
Date: August 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1941
Docket Number: 10-50041
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for being a previously-removed alien found in the United States. Defendant argued that the district court erred in refusing to give a requested jury instruction, which would have…
Date: August 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1942
Docket Number: 10-55037
Justia Opinion Summary: Qui tam relators brought this action on behalf of the United States government, appealing the district court's judgment dismissing, without leave to amend, their original complaint against the Individual Defendants and…
Date: August 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1943
Docket Number: 10-56374
Justia Opinion Summary: Steve Baldwin and the Pacific Justice Institute challenged the constitutionality of the so-called "individual mandate" provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119,…
Date: August 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1937
Docket Number: 05-50170
Justia Opinion Summary: A majority of the en banc court overruled the court's prior holding in Navarro-Lopez v. Gonzales that the modified categorical approach did not apply "[w]hen the crime of conviction [was] missing an element of the…
Date: August 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1938
Docket Number: 10-15519
Justia Opinion Summary: Blue Lake Rancheria, an Indian tribe, sought a refund of Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA), 26 U.S.C. 3306(c)(7), taxes paid by Mainstay Business Solutions (Mainstay), an employee leasing company wholly owned by the…
Date: August 10, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1933
Docket Number: 06-73345
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the BIA's decision affirming the IJ's conclusion that, due to fraud in obtaining her admission, petitioner was not a Legal Permanent Resident (LPR) and therefore, was not eligible for cancellation of…
Date: August 10, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1934
Docket Number: 09-56808
Justia Opinion Summary: In connection with an assessment of a taxpayer for unpaid taxes, the IRS began searching for the taxpayer's assets and issued a summons to a bank for a related third party's account information. The taxpayer and third…
Date: August 10, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1935
Docket Number: 09-99003
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of two counts of aggravated murder in the first degree, one count of attempted murder in the first degree, and one count of attempting to elude a police vehicle. Defendant raised several issues on…
Date: August 10, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1936
Docket Number: 10-35764
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the district court's order granting American Bankers Insurance Company's (American Bankers) motion to set aside default judgment for excusable neglect under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(1). Plaintiffs argued…
Date: August 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1932
Docket Number: 10-15965
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a class action complaint in Nevada state court against his employer, alleging that the employer failed to pay him and other similarly situated employees overtime and minimum wages, listing causes of…
Date: August 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1927
Docket Number: 09-56134
Justia Opinion Summary: Mavrix Photo, Inc. (Mavrix), a Florida Corporation with its principal place of business in Miami, sued Brand Technologies, Inc., an Ohio corporation with its principal place of business in Toledo, and its CEO…
Date: August 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1928
Docket Number: 09-56528
Justia Opinion Summary: CollegeSource, Inc. (CollegeSource), a California corporation with its principal place of business in California, sued AcademyOne, Inc. (AcademyOne), a Pennsylvania corporation with its principal place of business in…
Date: August 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1929
Docket Number: 09-56569
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of conspiring to manufacture one kilogram or more of a substance containing phencylcidine (PCP); possession of approximately eleven kilograms of piperidinocyclohexanecarbonitrile (PCC) with intent…
Date: August 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1930
Docket Number: 10-10216
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to one count of reentry of removed alien and the district court applied a sixteen-level enhancement for a previous "alien smuggling offense." Defendant filed a motion on March 5, 2010, arguing that…
Date: August 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1931
Docket Number: 10-50168
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when defendant was charged with one count of embezzlement and theft of labor union assets. At issue was whether the district court's employment of supplemental arguments impermissibly coerced a guilty…
Date: August 5, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1924
Docket Numbers: 07-50408, 07-50409
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants, John Stinson and Robert Griffin, appealed their convictions for crimes related to their membership in the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) prison gang. This appeal centered on numerous procedural decisions by the…
Date: August 5, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1925
Docket Number: 09-56986
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff brought suit against an airline alleging a common law breach of contract under the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. At issue was whether plaintiff's claim was preempted by the Airline…
Date: August 5, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1926
Docket Number: 10-35455
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of its action against defendant, alleging tort, contract, and state statutory claims and seeking, among other remedies, a constructive trust and…
Date: August 4, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1920
Docket Numbers: 06-50668, 06-50669
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants were convicted for several crimes related to their membership in the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) prison gang and were both sentenced to life in prison. Defendants raised numerous issues on appeal. The court held…
Date: August 4, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1921
Docket Number: 09-10398
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted on two counts of violating 8 U.S.C. 1326, which prohibited a deported alien from reentering the United States without the consent of the U.S. Attorney General. Defendant appealed from his…
Date: August 4, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1922
Docket Number: 09-55203
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when plaintiff sued Lucent Technologies for disability benefits based on grounds of mental disability. At issue was whether 42 U.S.C. 1981 retaliation claims were governed by the four-year statute of…
Date: August 4, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1923
Docket Number: 10-71854
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when taxpayer transferred membership units in a family-owned LLC partly as a gift and partly by a sale to two trusts and coupled the transfers with simultaneous gifts of LLC units to two charitable…
Date: August 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1914
Docket Numbers: 07-50478, 08-50165
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants were jointly tried and convicted of a substantive RICO violation, 18 U.S.C. 1962(c); RICO conspiracy, 18 U.S.C. 1962(d); and two counts of violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity (VICAR), 18 U.S.C.…
Date: August 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1915
Docket Number: 09-10504
Justia Opinion Summary: This is an interlocutory government appeal from the district court's suppression of all evidence obtained as a result of an airport search of defendant's checked luggage at Hilo International Airport. The government…
Date: August 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1916
Docket Number: 10-15967
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant where plaintiff was a former bus driver for defendant and was terminated, subsequently reinstated pursuant to an agreement executed…
Date: August 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1917
Docket Numbers: 10-35850, 10-35851, 10-35853, 10-35852, 10-35854, 10-35855, 10-35856, 10-35857, 10-35858, 10-35859
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, and nine other similarly situated prisoners, appealed the district court's judgment denying their 28 U.S.C. 2241 habeas corpus petitions. At issue was whether these consolidated habeas corpus petitions…
Date: August 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1918
Docket Number: 10-56316
Justia Opinion Summary: Perfect 10 moved for a preliminary injunction against Google, arguing that it was entitled to an injunction because Google's web and image search and related caching feature, its Blogger service, and its practice of…
Date: August 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1919
Docket Number: 10-60004
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from credit agreements Lehman entities entered into with Palmdale Hills, LLC entities. Palmdale filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2008 and Lehman subsequently filed eight motions for relief…
Date: August 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1910
Docket Number: 09-35276
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of two counts of first degree sex abuse and two counts of first degree sodomy. At issue was whether a credible showing of "actual innocence" under Schlup v. Delon excused the statute of…
Date: August 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1911
Docket Number: 09-55299
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, a Christian sorority and fraternity, as well as several of their officers at San Diego State University, brought suit in federal district court challenging the university's nondiscrimination policy under the…
Date: August 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1912
Docket Number: 10-15284
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from the tragic February 2007 crash of an Army Special Operations Aviation Regiment helicopter in Afghanistan. Plaintiffs, who include those injured and the heirs of those killed in the crash, appealed…
Date: August 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1913
Docket Number: 10-50206
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant conditionally pleaded guilty pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2) to one count of possession of child pornography. Defendant appealed the denial of his motion to suppress the offending…
Date: August 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1907
Docket Number: 09-56679
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's grant of defendant's motion to dismiss where plaintiff claimed that defendant violated a section of California's Rees-Levering Act (Act), Cal. Civ. Code 2983.2(a), which required a…
Date: August 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1908
Docket Numbers: 10-15607, 10-15951
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the district court's dismissal of their claims against manufacturers of dry cleaning equipment brought, inter alia, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA), 42 U.S.C. 6901 et…
Date: August 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1909
Docket Number: 10-35175
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued defendants, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Alaska Department of Transportation (Alaska), and the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (Alyeska), in federal court, alleging causes of action for…
Date: July 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1906
Docket Number: 07-35115
Justia Opinion Summary: The court agreed to rehear this case en banc to clarify under what circumstances the exhaustion requirement of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. 1415(l), barred non-IDEA federal or state…
Date: July 29, 2011
Docket Number: 10-15783
Date: July 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1901
Docket Number: 07-99021
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering a mother and her daughter. Petitioner appealed his denial of federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. 2254, raising a number of different claims. The court…
Date: July 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1902
Docket Numbers: 08-56518, 08-56588, 09-55333
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs claimed that defendants, owners and managers of a for-profit website called DMV.org, violated federal and state unfair competition and false advertising laws by actively fostering the belief that DMV.org was…
Date: July 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1902
Docket Number: 08-56518
Date: July 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1903
Docket Number: 09-16753
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from a so-called bubble ordinance enacted by the Oakland City Council, which made it an offense to knowingly and willfully approach within eight feet of an individual seeking entry to a reproductive…
Date: July 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1903
Docket Number: 09-16753
Date: July 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1904
Docket Numbers: 10-10134, 10-10180
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants appealed from their convictions for conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking…
Date: July 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1905
Docket Number: 10-16152
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, the mother of Jerry Amaro, filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 claim against defendants for the use of excessive force, which resulted in injuries that caused Amaro's death. At issue was whether the doctrine of equitable…
Date: July 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1898
Docket Number: 08-15504
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, an inmate, sought enforcement of his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA or Act), 5 U.S.C. 552, request to the DEA for records pertaining to a certain confidential informant. In response, the DEA submitted a…
Date: July 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1899
Docket Number: 09-57022
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants appealed the district court's order awarding them attorney fees following settlement of their claims against appellees brought under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619, and California law. At issue was…
Date: July 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1900
Docket Number: 10-73780
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from petitioners' suit against defendants, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 206 et seq., forced labor in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1589, unjust enrichment, and violations of…
Date: July 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1893
Docket Number: 09-15288
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs brought an action under 42 U.S.C. 1983, seeking to prove that they were subjected to excessive force while in custody at the Sacramento County Main Jail. At issue was whether the district court erred by…
Date: July 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1894
Docket Number: 09-15682
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a complaint against defendant, seeking indemnity and/or contribution based on the damage defendant allegedly caused through gross negligence in removing plaintiff's vessel from a coral reef. At issue was…
Date: July 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1895
Docket Number: 09-56858
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued Icelandair in federal district court, alleging that it was liable for her injuries under Article 17 of the Convention of the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Transportation by Air…
Date: July 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1896
Docket Number: 10-16916
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued R.R. Street & Co., Inc. (Street), which designed and manufactured a machine used in the dry cleaning business, and several other defendants for contribution to environmental cleanup costs under the…
Date: July 26, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1897
Docket Number: 10-35823
Justia Opinion Summary: Three conservation groups (Applicants) appealed from the denial of their motion to intervene on the side of defendants in an action where plaintiff challenged an interim order issued by the Forest Service in response to…
Date: July 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1889
Docket Numbers: 09-50271, 09-50409
Justia Opinion Summary: Each of the defendants in these consolidated appeals sought safety-valve relief where they were serving a state probationary sentence when they committed and pleaded guilty to the charge of smuggling methamphetamine into…
Date: July 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1890
Docket Number: 09-55233
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff brought a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action for damages resulting from a violent attack he allegedly suffered while he was an inmate in the Los Angeles County Jail. At issue was whether the district court properly…
Date: July 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1891
Docket Number: 10-15270
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, raisin producers, appealed an administrative decision by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which imposed civil penalties and assessments for their failure to comply with the reserve pool…
Date: July 25, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1892
Docket Number: 10-15755
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants appealed the district court's order affirming the bankruptcy court's decision that they were not entitled to subrogation pursuant to the provisions of 11 U.S.C. 509. With one clarification regarding…
Date: July 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1886
Docket Number: 09-16530
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the denial of his federal habeas petition where his charges stemmed from a home-invasion robbery. At issue was the California Court of Appeals' rulings that he had no absolute Sixth Amendment right to…
Date: July 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1887
Docket Number: 10-10191
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with crimes stemming from conduct involving her live-in nanny and housekeeper where defendant arranged for her to travel from her native Peru to the United States in 2006 by entering under a…
Date: July 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1888
Docket Number: 10-15306
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved the seizure and administrative forfeiture of two leopard trophies by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from two hunters (plaintiffs) who attempted to import the leopards from African…
Date: July 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1884
Docket Number: 07-70500
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of India, appealed from the BIA's denial of his motion to reopen premised on ineffective assistance of counsel. Petitioner married a U.S. citizen during the pendency of his appeal from…
Date: July 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1885
Docket Number: 09-72060
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision dismissing his appeal from an IJ's order finding him removable and denying his application for cancellation of removal. Petitioner…
Date: July 20, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1882
Docket Number: 01-99003
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner sought a writ of habeas corpus arguing that the California Supreme Court's delay in resolving the direct appeal from his murder conviction and death sentence denied him his right to due process under the…
Date: July 20, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1883
Docket Number: 10-15975
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants, the owner and operator of a Nevada company that inspected homes for construction defects and encouraged homeowners to file claims against their builder under a Nevada statute, appealed an injunction enjoining…
Date: July 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1877
Docket Number: 06-73335
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, an Indonesian citizen of Chinese descent, petitioned for review of the BIA's order affirming an IJ's denial of her claims for asylum and withholding of removal. At issue was whether the IJ correctly…
Date: July 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1878
Docket Numbers: 07-56692, 07-56693
Justia Opinion Summary: In consolidated appeals, defendants appealed the denial of their motions for judgment on the pleadings where plaintiffs brought a diversity suit to enforce California Civil Code 2527 and 2528, which required defendants…
Date: July 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1879
Docket Number: 09-50529
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from defendant's convictions for making two statements regarding Barack Obama on an online message board two weeks before the presidential election. At issue was whether the district court properly…
Date: July 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1880
Docket Numbers: 10-15124, 10-15375, 10-15407
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1974, African American and Mexican American students sued the Tucson, Arizona, school system alleging intentional segregation and unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of race and national origin. For some 30…
Date: July 19, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1881
Docket Number: 10-55172
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants engaged in discovery misconduct that was sufficiently egregious to cause the district court to enter an order of default against them. Although defendants subsequently challenged the default order as…
Date: July 18, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1875
Docket Number: 08-74173
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from the over $450,000 petitioners owed to the IRS for failing to report income derived from a fraudulent check-cashing scheme. At issue, inter alia, was whether the Tax Court had jurisdiction in a…
Date: July 18, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1876
Docket Number: 11-71987
Date: July 18, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1876
Docket Number: 11-71987
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner applied for authorization to file a second or successive petition for a writ of habeas corpus where he was convicted of first degree felony murder, second degree burglary, and theft in March 1988. At issue was…
Date: July 18, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1876
Docket Number: 11-71987
Date: July 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1873
Docket Number: 09-10362
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for importation of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute, claiming that the district court erred in admitting expert testimony regarding the structure and operations of…
Date: July 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1874
Docket Number: 09-56092
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sought damages from the United States for injuries to a child allegedly caused by exposure to the toxic heavy metal thallium from soil dumped into a landfill adjacent to the child' residence and school. The…
Date: July 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1869
Docket Number: 05-74350
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. At issue was whether a state court conviction for a simple-possession drug…
Date: July 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1870
Docket Number: 06-70635
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitioned for review of a decision of the BIA dismissing an appeal from an order of removal to Mexico. Despite petitioner's testimony to the contrary, an IJ found that…
Date: July 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1871
Docket Number: 09-17084
Justia Opinion Summary: The parents of E.M., a bilingual student, brought an action to challenge the Pajaro Valley Unified School District's (District) determination that E.M. did not qualify for special education under the Individuals with…
Date: July 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1872
Docket Number: 09-70240
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of China, petitioned for review of a final order of removal by the BIA where the BIA denied petitioner's applications for asylum and withholding of removal because it concluded that he…
Date: July 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1866
Docket Number: 09-55028
Date: July 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1867
Docket Number: 10-15984
Date: July 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1866
Docket Number: 09-55028
Justia Opinion Summary: Federal Insurance Company (FIC) sued for damage to property destroyed during the inland leg of international intermodal carriage where FIC was the subrogee of the shipper which contracted with an ocean carrier, APL Co.…
Date: July 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1868
Docket Number: 10-56017
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of two municipal entities that plaintiffs alleged were discharging polluted stormwater in violation of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act…
Date: July 13, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1867
Docket Number: 10-15984
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from the collective bargaining activities of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 142 (Union) and the Pacific Beach Hotel (Hotel) where the Union filed numerous unfair labor practice…
Date: July 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1862
Docket Numbers: 08-55671, 08-55708
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from a Mutual Strike Assistance Agreement (MSAA) that was entered into by defendants (grocers) where the MSAA included a revenue-sharing provision (RSP), providing that in the event of a strike/lockout,…
Date: July 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1862
Docket Number: 08-55671
Date: July 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1863
Docket Number: 09-15422
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a Christian congregation church, sued the City of Yuma when the city prevented the church from conducting church services in a building it had bought for that purpose. At issue was the "equal terms" provision…
Date: July 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1864
Docket Number: 09-16643
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, a state prisoner, sought a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254 where appellant was convicted in 2005 for first degree murder, attempted murder, and attempted robbery with…
Date: July 12, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1865
Docket Number: 10-60000
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from a bankruptcy appeal of a tax debt owed by debtor to the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB). The bankruptcy court and the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) found that the debt was not excepted from…
Date: July 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1855
Docket Number: 06-15614
Justia Opinion Summary: In a previous en banc opinion, the court held that defendant's trial counsel provided him constitutionally ineffective assistance because he failed to consult or call forensic experts to explain a pool of blood found at…
Date: July 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1856
Docket Number: 08-55564
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed from the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus where he was convicted of one count of first degree murder, one count of conspiracy to commit murder, and six counts of attempted premeditated…
Date: July 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1857
Docket Number: 08-99031
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to three capital charges and seven other charges in connection with the kidnapping, sexual abuse, and murder of a 9 year-old boy and the kidnapping and sexual abuse of an 8 year-old girl.…
Date: July 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1858
Docket Number: 09-35957
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, commercial fishermen, brought an action against defendant, who was the Commissioner of the Fisheries for the State of Alaska (Commissioner), asking the district court to declare that certain regulations,…
Date: July 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1859
Docket Number: 10-30065
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of possessing and transporting child pornography and appealed his conviction, sentence, and the district court's order directing him to pay $65,000 in restitution to two victims. The court…
Date: July 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1860
Docket Number: 10-35430
Date: July 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1861
Docket Number: 10-50240
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of possession of child pornography and appealed a judgment that included, as a condition of supervised release, a requirement that monitoring technology be installed on his computer-related…
Date: July 11, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1860
Docket Number: 10-35430
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, the mother of a developmentally disabled high school student, alleged that the several sexual encounters her daughter had with another developmentally disabled student in a school bathroom were the result of…
Date: July 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1852
Docket Number: 07-70114
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision dismissing his appeal from an IJ's decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the…
Date: July 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1853
Docket Number: 08-73805
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Guatemala, was convicted twice for second-degree commercial burglary when he was arrested for walking out of a supermarket with unpaid items on two separate occasions. As a result, the…
Date: July 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1854
Docket Number: 10-50111
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed from his conviction and sentence for reentry after deportation. Defendant contended that his deportation was invalid because the IJ failed to advise him of his eligibility for voluntary departure. The…
Date: July 7, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1851
Docket Number: 08-99032
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Richard Hurles appealed the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus from his murder conviction and death sentence. He argued that the district court erred on four issues: judicial…
Date: July 6, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1850
Docket Numbers: 09-16245, 09-16796
Justia Opinion Summary: West Coast Seafood Processors Association (WCSPA) appealed from the district court's denial of its motion to intervene as a defendant in this case, in which the NRDC challenged the National Marine Fisheries Service's…
Date: July 5, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1847
Docket Number: 07-70730
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision to affirm the IJ's order of removal pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii) where petitioner was an alien convicted of two…
Date: July 5, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1848
Docket Number: 10-10159
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with assault resulting in serious bodily injury, occurring within the Colorado River Indian Tribes reservation in western Arizona. At issue was whether a district court could, over defense objection…
Date: July 5, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1849
Docket Number: 10-10293
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to aggravated identity theft and to committing fraudulent transactions with access devices. In a written plea agreement, defendant waived "his right to appeal any aspect of his convictions." At…
Date: July 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1846
Docket Number: 06-73982
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a 71 year old native of Turkmenistan and a citizen of Armenia, petitioned for review of the BIA's denial as untimely of her motion to reopen removal proceedings to apply for adjustment of status, on account…
Date: June 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1844
Docket Number: 09-16818
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed an action against defendants (collectively, the Plan) for refusing to pay certain long-term disability benefits. At issue was whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment for defendants…
Date: June 30, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1845
Docket Numbers: 10-30148, 10-30149
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). At issue was whether a February 2000 conviction for burglary in…
Date: June 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1841
Docket Number: 07-72719
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, who came to the United States from Armenia, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision that she failed to satisfy her burden of proving eligibility for asylum and withholding of removal and the BIA's…
Date: June 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1842
Docket Number: 09-57064
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from the NRDC's complaint against the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) alleging that SCAQMD violated the Clean Air Act (CAA), section 173(c), by distributing invalid credits from its…
Date: June 29, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1843
Docket Number: 10-35128
Justia Opinion Summary: This suit followed BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.'s (BPXA) temporary shut-down of its pipelines and oil production in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, upon its discovery of a leak in a pipeline located in its Prudhoe Bay Eastern…
Date: June 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1840
Docket Number: 11-71782
Date: June 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1839
Docket Numbers: 09-16585, 09-16739, 09-17640
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants formerly maintained railroad tracks on a parcel of land in Stockton, California, that was contaminated by petroleum. The petroleum was spilled at a nearby industrial site and migrated onto the property via an…
Date: June 28, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1840
Docket Numbers: 07-90017, 11-16453, 11-71782
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and molestation of a nine-year-old girl and received the death sentence. Petitioner requested permission to file a second or successive application for a writ…
Date: June 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1837
Docket Number: 10-10338
Justia Opinion Summary: This is the second appeal arising from the failed prosecution of defendants for securities and investment fraud. At issue was whether the district court abused its discretion in denying defendants' motion to reopen under…
Date: June 27, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1838
Docket Number: 10-35792
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging the Bureau of Prison's (BOP) calculation of his Good Conduct Time (GCT) credit under 18 U.S.C. 3624(b), contending that…
Date: June 24, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1834
Docket Numbers: 07-74047, 07-75129
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native of the Philippines, petitioned for review of an order of the BIA directing his removal, as well as the BIA's order denying reconsideration. At issue was whether the IJ erred in finding him removable,…
Date: June 24, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1835
Docket Number: 09-60054
Justia Opinion Summary: Debtor filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy petition in 1998 and submitted a plan of reorganization ("Plan"), continuing to operate as a debtor-in-possession. Article X of the confirmed Plan provided for the discharge of all…
Date: June 24, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1836
Docket Number: 10-15359
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against defendants claiming that she had been demoted in retaliation for exercising her First Amendment rights by attending a school board meeting and sitting next to her…
Date: June 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1831
Docket Numbers: 07-56098, 07-56193, 07-56196
Justia Opinion Summary: The SEC brought suit against senior officers of Gateway Incorporated ("Gateway") claiming that they unlawfully misrepresented Gateway's financial condition in the third quarter of 2000 in order to meet financial…
Date: June 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1832
Docket Number: 09-35703
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, married couples who worked as house parents to children who were "severely emotionally disturbed" in defendants' homes, sued defendants for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C.…
Date: June 23, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1833
Docket Number: 10-10088
Justia Opinion Summary: Former Arizona Congressman Richard G. Renzi sought to invoke the Speech or Debate Clause ("Clause") of the Constitution to preclude his prosecution for allegedly using his public office to benefit himself rather than his…
Date: June 23, 2011
Docket Number: 10-15215
Date: June 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1826
Docket Numbers: 07-56869, 08-55234
Justia Opinion Summary: The court agreed to hear this case en banc in order to reconsider its precedent as to which parties could be sued as defendants in actions for benefits under 29 U.S.C. 1132(a)(1)(B), part of ERISA. Some of the court's…
Date: June 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1827
Docket Number: 08-16676
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion to correct a federal sentencing enhancement imposed on account of his Utah conviction for burglarizing a "dwelling." At issue was whether the…
Date: June 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1828
Docket Numbers: 08-50141, 08-50142, 08-50145, 08-50147, 08-50150, 08-50151, 08-50152
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from a federal grand jury indictment of twenty-two persons, including the seven defendants at issue, for illegal activities related to the Mexican Mafia. Defendants appealed their convictions of…
Date: June 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1829
Docket Number: 08-74371
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Mexico, challenged a decision of the BIA denying him cancellation of removal and voluntary departure. At issue was whether the BIA erred in determining that petitioner was ineligible…
Date: June 22, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1830
Docket Number: 10-15276
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from an asset purchase transaction where defendants and plaintiff entered into an allocation agreement that included an arbitration clause. Defendants appealed from the district court's order enjoining…
Date: June 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1823
Docket Number: 08-17030
Justia Opinion Summary: This action stemmed from the Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") "ISP Remand Order", which imposed a new compensation regime for ISP-bound traffic, i.e., internet service provider-bound traffic. Plaintiff, which…
Date: June 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1824
Docket Number: 09-72059
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitioned for review of a decision of the BIA determining that petitioner was ineligible for adjustment of status under section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act…
Date: June 21, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1825
Docket Number: 10-50246
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was arrested on September 13, 2009, by Customs and Border Protection agents and was charged in a one-count indictment with attempting to transport an illegal alien. Defendant pleaded not guilty and his trial…
Date: June 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1820
Docket Number: 08-70434
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, an Indian citizen and former resident of the nation's Punjab state, petitioned for review of the BIA's decision that his asylum application was time-barred because he failed to provide corroboration of his…
Date: June 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1821
Docket Number: 09-50609
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, which was prohibited by 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). The government subsequently appealed from defendant's 37 month sentence, arguing that the district court…
Date: June 17, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1822
Docket Number: 10-30224
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of receipt of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2252A(a)(1),(2), and the district court applied an enhanced sentence of 40 years imprisonment in light of…
Date: June 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1818
Docket Number: 09-30211
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted on six counts of setting public lands afire under 18 U.S.C. 1855, when he burned about a thousand acres owned by the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") that were covered by sagebrush and other…
Date: June 16, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1819
Docket Number: 10-35313
Justia Opinion Summary: Resolute Industries, Inc. ("Resolute"), appealed an adverse summary judgment on its products liability claims against Webasto Products NA, Inc. ("Webasto"), the manufacturer of a heater that caught fire on Curtis…
Date: June 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1814
Docket Number: 09-10429
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to violating the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. 846, 841(a)(1), and (b)(1)(B)(ii), and received the mandatory minimum sentence of five years imprisonment. At issue was whether the district…
Date: June 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1815
Docket Number: 09-16370
Justia Opinion Summary: Two-thousand unlicensed junior accountants brought a wage-and-hour class action against their employer, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ("PwC"), alleging, among other things, that PwC failed to pay them mandatory overtime…
Date: June 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1816
Docket Number: 09-56200
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, a medicare provider, appealed its notice of program reimbursement for the fiscal year ending in 2001 to the Provider Reimbursement Review Board ("Board"), which dismissed the appeal because appellant missed…
Date: June 15, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1817
Docket Number: 10-15996
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from the parties' insurance agreement where appellant insured appellees against borrower defaults on appellees' loans. Appellant appealed the district court's decision to remand the case back to state…
Date: June 14, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1813
Docket Number: 09-55644
Justia Opinion Summary: San Diego County Sheriff's Deputies ("deputies") shot and killed Shane Hayes inside his home after the deputies arrived at Hayes' residence in response to a domestic disturbance call from a neighbor. Plaintiff, Hayes'…
Date: June 10, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1812
Docket Numbers: 09-17349, 09-17357
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose when the Colorado River Indian Tribes ("CRIT") exercised jurisdiction over appellants, a non-Indian closely held corporation and its non-Indian owner, in an unlawful detainer action for breach of a lease…
Date: June 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1807
Docket Number: 08-35586
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus relief where he was found guilty of first-degree murder. At issue was whether appellant's constitutional right to confront witnesses was denied in his jury trial by…
Date: June 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1808
Docket Numbers: 09-15703, 09-15806
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from the controversial late-night arrests and subsequent release of two Phoenix newspaper executives. The newspaper executives and the Phoenix New Times, LLC (collectively, "plaintiffs") subsequently sued…
Date: June 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1809
Docket Number: 09-16995
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose from a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. 552, request concerning documents about individuals who reported to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") regarding their…
Date: June 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1810
Docket Numbers: 09-17558, 09-17652
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant appealed the grant of summary judgment in his civil rights action arising from the suspension of his medical staff privileges at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada ("UMC"), a county hospital…
Date: June 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1811
Docket Number: 10-55322
Date: June 9, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1811
Docket Numbers: 10-55322, 10-55324, 10-55434
Justia Opinion Summary: This action stemmed from the City of San Diego's Municipal Election Campaign Control Ordinance, San Diego, Cal., Municipal Code ch. 2, art. 7, div. 29, which imposed limitations on campaign finance. Plaintiffs raised a…
Date: June 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1804
Docket Numbers: 06-74547, 07-71289
Justia Opinion Summary: Husband and wife appealed the BIA's denial of wife's motion to reopen her case to consider her application for adjustment of status after the IJ made an express adverse creditability finding against husband and wife and…
Date: June 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1805
Docket Number: 07-50020
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction and 220 month sentence after being found guilty by a jury of one count of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ("RICO") conspiracy, 18 U.S.C. 1962(d), for participation in…
Date: June 8, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1806
Docket Number: 09-10447
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed from the sentence imposed by the district court following his guilty plea to one count of attempted reentry after deportation. At issue was whether the district court committed reversible error by…
Date: June 6, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1803
Docket Number: 09-15782
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to imprisonment in 1982. In 2005, the California Board of Prison Terms ("Board") found petitioner eligible for parole and calculated a tentative release date.…
Date: June 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1799
Docket Number: 08-17790
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a California prisoner, appealed the district court's denial of his habeas corpus petition challenging his California felony murder conviction. At issue was whether petitioner was entitled to habeas corpus…
Date: June 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1800
Docket Number: 08-71427
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the BIA's decision rejecting the IJ's conclusion that petitioner met the seven years of continuous residence requirement by finding that she was admitted in any status on the day she became the…
Date: June 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1801
Docket Number: 08-72252
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the BIA's decision rejecting the IJ's conclusion that receiving an employment authorization document was comparable to being a participant in the Family Unity Program. Instead, the BIA found…
Date: June 3, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1802
Docket Number: 09-56785
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, a putative class of retail cable and satellite television subscribers, brought suit against television programmers and distributors alleging that programmers' practice of selling multi-channel cable packages…
Date: June 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1795
Docket Number: 08-36031
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the district court's dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion as untimely. Defendant argued that the court's order recalling the mandate, so that it could consider his motion for appointment of…
Date: June 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1796
Docket Number: 09-50315
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his statutorily mandated, five-year minimum sentence following his guilty plea to conspiracy to possess crack cocaine with intent to distribute, and distribution of at least five grams of crack cocaine…
Date: June 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1797
Docket Number: 10-35355
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed a district court order dismissing for lack of subject matter jurisdiction his suit against defendants, asserting that federal constitutional and state common law torts arising out of allegations that…
Date: June 2, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1798
Docket Number: 10-50273
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to importing 33.46 kilograms of cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. 952 and 960 and sentenced to 57 months imprisonment. At issue was whether the district court erred in declining to decrease the base…
Date: June 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1790
Docket Numbers: 08-35951, 10-35045
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs sued defendant to enforce the Environmental Protection Agency's ("EPA") unilateral administrative order that commanded defendant to conduct a remedial investigation and feasibility study to assess the site…
Date: June 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1791
Docket Numbers: 08-56187, 08-56270
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, 25 members of the Achuar indigenous group dependent for their existence upon the rainforest lands and waterways along the Rio Corrientes in Peru, and Amazon Watch, a California corporation, sued Occidental…
Date: June 1, 2011
Citation: 2011 US App (9th) 1792
Docket Number: 09-16404
Justia Opinion Summary: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ("CDCR") had a paid chaplaincy program that employed Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, and Native American clergy. These chaplains served all inmates but…
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