• Lynn v. George

    Publication Date: 2017-09-22
    Practice Area: Law Firm Client Relationships | Real Estate
    Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-09-21
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Office of Marie H. Kramer, Marie H. Kramer; Nevin Law Firm and Jeffrey G. Nevin for Plaintiffs and Respondents.
    for defendant: Ford & Diulio, Kristopher P. Diulio; Shawn M. Olson and Kevin A. Spainhour for Defendants and Appellants.

    Case Number: No. G053563

    No showing of client or nonclient confidential relationship with opposing counsel warranting disqualification (Fybel, J.)

  • In re J.T. Thorpe, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-09-18
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline | Bankruptcy
    Industry: Legal Services
    Date Filed: 2017-09-14
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Virginia A. Phillips, Chief District Judge, Presiding Before: Milan D. Smith, Jr. and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges, and Edward R. Korman,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dirk Van Ausdall (argued), San Francisco, California; Michael J. Mandelbrot, The Mandelbrot Law Firm, Novato, California; for Appellants.
    for defendant: Gary S. Fergus (argued), Fergus Law Office, San Francisco, California; Daniel J. Bussel, Thomas E. Patterson, and Kathryn T. Zwicker, Klee Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, Los Angeles, California: for Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 15-56430

    Debarment ruling needed to be reconsidered in light of Golden (Owens, J.)

  • In re CWS Enterprises, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-09-18
    Practice Area: Attorney Rates and Arrangements | Bankruptcy | Creditors
    Industry: Legal Services
    Date Filed: 2017-09-14
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Kimberly J. Mueller, District Judge, Presiding Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Edward R. Korman,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven T. Spiller (argued), Spiller McProud, Nevada City, California; Walter R. Dahl, Dahl Law, Sacramento, California, for Plaintiff-Appellee Spiller McProud.
    for defendant: Bradley A. Benbrook (argued) and Stephen M. Duvernay, Benbrook Law Group PC, Sacramento, California; David A. Cheit, DLA Piper LLP (US), Sacramento, California; for Defendant-Appellant David D. Flemmer.

    Case Number: No. 14-17045 No. 14-17046

    State court's determination of law firm's reasonable contingency fee for pre-petition services entitled to preclusive effect in bankruptcy court (Kleinfeld, J.)

  • Roth v. Plikaytis

    Publication Date: 2017-09-14
    Practice Area: Evidence | Litigation | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Legal Services
    Date Filed: 2017-09-13
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hamilton & McInnis, Ben-Thomas Hamilton, and Kristine S. Stcynske for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: McMillan Law Firm and Scott A. McMillan for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. D070484

    Trial court erred in refusing to considered previously filed materials incorporated by reference in attorney fee motion (Dato, J.)

  • State of Hawaii v. Trump

    Publication Date: 2017-09-08
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-09-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Derrick Kahala Watson, District Judge, Presiding Before: Michael Daly Hawkins, Ronald M. Gould, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal Kumar Katyal, Colleen Roh Sinzdak, Mitchell P. Reich, and Elizabeth Hagerty, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C.; Thomas P. Schmidt, Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, New York; Sara Solow and Alexander B. Bowerman, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Douglas S. Chin, Attorney General; Clyde J. Wadsworth, Solicitor General; Deirdre Marie-Iha, Donna H. Kalama, Kimberly T. Guidry, and Robert T. Nakatsuji, Deputy Attorneys General; Department of the Attorney General, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawai'i; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Jeffrey B. Wall, Acting Solicitor General; Edwin S. Kneedler, Deputy Solicitor General; Chad A. Readler, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Elliot Enoki, Acting United States Attorney; Hashim M. Mooppan, Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Douglas N. Letter, Sharon Swingle, H. Thomas Byron III, and Lowell V. Sturgill Jr., Attorneys, Appellate Staff; Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

    Case Number: No. 17-16426

    District court properly construed "bona fide relationship" in modifying preliminary injunction of executive order on immigration (per curiam)

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  • Pulte Home Corporation v. American Safety Indemnity Company

    Publication Date: 2017-09-05
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Construction | Legal Services
    Date Filed: 2017-08-30
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Koeller, Nebeker, Carlson & Haluck, Robert C. Carlson, Sharon A. Huerta and Sarah P. Long, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, Gregory D. Hagen; Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Robert A. Olson and Gary J. Wax, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. D070478

    Ambiguity in policy had to be construed in favor of insured (Huffman, Acting P.J.)

  • Direct Capital Corporation v. Brooks

    Publication Date: 2017-09-05
    Practice Area: Family Law | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Legal Services
    Date Filed: 2017-08-30
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ferns Adams & Associates and Amanda N. Ferns for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Law Offices of Douglas S. Srulowtiz and Douglas S. Srulowitz for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. C081349

    Spouse liable for debt incurred by wife for computer equipment used to generate community income (Duarte, J.)

  • United States v. Walter-Eze

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services | Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-08-25
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: R. Gary Klausner, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judge, and Carol Bagley Amon,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellen R. Meltzer (argued), Special Counsel; Joanna K.W. Bowman, Alexander F. Porter, and Blanca Quintero, Assistant United States Attorneys; Sung-Hee Suh, Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General; Fraud Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: David J. Bernstein (argued), Law Office of David Jay Bernstein PA, Deerfield Beach, Florida, for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 15-50315

    Conflict between counsel's interest and client's interests did not warrant presumption of prejudice (Amon, J.)

  • Marinelarena v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Immigration Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-23
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: A. Wallace Tashima, Barry G. Silverman, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Knapp (argued), Supervising Attorney; Laura Free (argued), Isis Miranda (argued), Lilit Arabyan, and Eric M. Sowatsky, Certified Law Students; Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California; for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Tim Ramnitz (argued), Attorney; Jennifer P. Levings, Senior Litigation Counsel; Shelley R. Goad, Assistant Director; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 14-72003

    Supreme court's decision in Moncrieffe did not abrogate Ninth Circuit's holding in Young (Graber, J.)

  • Harris v. Superior Court (People)

    Publication Date: 2017-08-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government | Legal Services
    Date Filed: 2017-08-09
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Miriam T. Lyle, Public Defender, Nelson C. Lu, Deputy Public Defender, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent Superior Court.Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez and Kari Ricci Mueller, Deputy Attorneys General for Real Party in Interest.

    Case Number: No. C083669

    Order of restitution was "significant adverse collateral consequence" of misdemeanor conviction warranting appointment of appellate counsel (Murray, J.)