9th Circuit Court of Appeals (19 summaries)
Rouse v. Wachovia Mortgage
For diversity jurisdiction purposes, national bank is a citizen only of the state where its main office is located.
Area(s) of Law:- Civil Procedure
Tattersalls v. DeHaven
The district court's use of Rule 60(a) to correct a judgment and award monetary damages, is proper when the district court's original intent is to award monetary damages.
Area(s) of Law:- Civil Procedure
Deutsche Bank Nat’l Trust Co. v. FDIC
Claims against a receiver are prudentially moot if there are insufficient assets to satisfy general unsecured liabilities; and, creditor's claims arising from post-receivership breach of pre-receivership agreements are subject to 12 USC § 1821(d)(11) priority distribution.
Area(s) of Law:- Civil Procedure
United States v. Hammond
Where Congress has, within its authority, determined an appropriate sentence for a crime, the district court has no discretion to disregard the minimum sentence mandated by the statute.
Area(s) of Law:- Sentencing
Drakes Bay Oyster Co. v. Jewell
Although a federal court lacks jurisdiction to review a decision fully committed to an agency's discretion, it has jurisdictional authority to review the decision for violations of constitutional, statutory, regulatory, or other legal mandates or restrictions.
Area(s) of Law:- Environmental Law
Omnipoint v. City of Huntington Beach
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 preempts local land use authorities’ legislative regulations that fail to comply with requirements of 47 USC § 332(c)(7)(B)(i) and (iv) and adjudicative decisions that fail to meet the minimum process requirements of § 332(c)(7)(B)(ii) and (iii), but such requirements are inapplicable to local authorities’ non-regulatory and non-adjudicative exercise of their property rights.
Area(s) of Law:- Preemption
Doe v. Holder
In an application for asylum or withholding of removal, the applicant need not show “a direct nexus between that the government’s inability or unwillingness to control nongovernmental persecutors and a statutorily-protected ground.”
Area(s) of Law:- Immigration
State of Arizona v. ASARCO
In a Title VII sexual harassment suit with nominal damages and no compensatory damages, the highest punitive award supportable under due process must fall within the statutory cap and be proportional to the reprehensibility of the defendant’s conduct without exceeding a punitive damages to compensatory damages ratio of 125,000 to 1.
Area(s) of Law:- Employment Law
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union v. Corey
A selective comparison of important factors and relevant fuel pathways cannot support the district court's holding that the ethanol and crude oil provisions of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Cal Code Regs tit. 17, §§ 95480-90 (2011), violate the dormant Commerce Clause.
Area(s) of Law:- Environmental Law
Pizzuto v. Blades
Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Idaho Supreme Court’s application of Idaho Code § 19-2515A is neither contrary to nor an unreasonable application of the clearly established federal law in Atkins v. Virginia, which prohibits the execution of individuals with mental retardation.
Area(s) of Law:- Habeas Corpus
Cavitt v. Cullen
Under California law, the “logical nexus” requirement between the felony and the victim’s death is not unconstitutionally vague because the California Supreme Court has provided guidance as to its definition.
Area(s) of Law:- Habeas Corpus
United States v. Moschella
When a sentence outside the Sentencing Guidelines range is the result of a “variance” based on the application of statutory factors and not a “departure” from the provisions of the Sentencing Guidelines, notice under Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(h) is not required; 18 U.S.C. § 3664(n) does not prevent the district court from exercising its discretion in imposing a special condition of restitution during a supervised release.
Area(s) of Law:- Sentencing
K.M. v. Tustin Unified Sch. Dist.
A school district’s compliance with its obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regarding accommodation for a deaf or hard-of-hearing child does not necessarily foreclose an Americans with Disabilities Act Title II claim grounded in the Title II effective communications regulation.
Area(s) of Law:- Disability Law
United States v. Spencer
A conviction for criminal property damage in the first degree under § 708-820(1)(a) of the Hawaii Revised Statutes is categorically a crime of violence under the residual clause of § 4B1.2(a)(2) of the Sentencing Guidelines because it presents a “serious potential risk of physical injury to another,” and a defendant is therefore subject to the “career offender” sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1.
Area(s) of Law:- Sentencing
Action Recycling, Inc. v. United States
Previous possession of a record by the IRS does not prohibit a future summons of the same information necessary to a legitimate investigation, so long as the IRS no longer has possession of the record.
Area(s) of Law:- Tax Law
In re: Stake Center Locating, Inc.
The right to restitution provided under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act and the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act attaches at, but not before, the defendant’s sentencing hearing.
Area(s) of Law:- Criminal Law
Western Watersheds Project v. Abbey
To comply with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Bureau of Land Management must not only take a “hard look” at environmental impacts from the programmatic stage of its planning and management, but it must also consider and assess a reasonable range of alternatives, including some that provide more protection for public lands, at the site-specific stage.
Area(s) of Law:- Environmental Law
Fox Ins. Co. v. Centers for Medicare/Medicaid
When a Medicare Part D insurance provider’s malfeasance is found to create a serious risk of health to Medicare enrollees, governing regulations authorize (1) the immediate termination of the services contract without a pre-termination hearing and (2) the immediate recovery of advanced capitation payments not utilized by the provider after the termination, even as final results of the reconciliation process are pending.
Area(s) of Law:- Insurance Law
Edgerly v. City & County of San Francisco
Consistent with California Court of Appeal's decisions and the statute's plain language, California Penal Code § 853.5 provides the exclusive grounds for the custodial arrest of a person arrested for an infraction.
Area(s) of Law:- Civil Rights § 1983