• United States v. Castillo-Mendez

    Publication Date: 2017-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-21
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Larry A. Burns, District Judge, Presiding Before: Stephen Reinhardt, A. Wallace Tashima, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: D. Benjamin Holley (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Helen H. Hong, Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Division; United States Attorney's Office, San Diego, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Kurt D. Hermansen (argued), Law Office of Kurt David Hermansen, San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 15-50273

    District court misinstructed jury regarding meaning of specific intent to enter "free from official restraint" (Paez, J.)

  • United States v. Job

    Publication Date: 2017-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-14
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Roger T. Benitez, District Judge, Presiding Before: A. Wallace Tashima and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges, and Paul L. Friedman,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark R. Rehe (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Peter Ko and Helen H. Hong,, Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Division; Alana W. Robinson, Acting United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, San Diego, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Todd W. Burns (argued), Burns and Cohan, San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 14-50472

    Government offered no lawful basis for search of suspect's person and vehicle (Friedman, J.)

  • In re Atossa Genetics Inc. Securities Litigation

    Publication Date: 2017-08-21
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Biotechnology | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Date Filed: 2017-08-18
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Ricardo S. Martinez, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: Ronald M. Gould and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges, and Ivan L.R. Lemelle,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marc Ian Gross (argued), Jeremy Lieberman, and Michael J. Wernke, Pomerantz LLP, New York, New York; Jeffrey C. Block, Whitney E. Street, and Mark A. Delaney, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; Dan Drachler, Zwerling Schachter & Zwerling LLP, Seattle, Washington; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Gregory L. Watts (argued), and Barry M. Kaplan, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Seattle, Washington; Cheryl W. Foung, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 14-35933

    Securities fraud class action adequately alleged falsity and materiality of claims that company's product was FDA-approved (Gould, J.)

  • People v. Button

    Publication Date: 2017-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-17
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Arlene A. Sevidal and Christine Yoon Friedman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Allison L. Ehlert, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. D070341

    No need for Boykin-Tahl advisement regarding stipulation that has potential impact on future sentencing decisions only (Aaron, J.)

  • In re J.P.

    Publication Date: 2017-08-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-17
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary C. Wickham, County Counsel, R. Keith Davis, Assistant County Counsel and Aileen Wong, Deputy County Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Elizabeth C. Alexander, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B277756

    Abuse of discretion to order reunification plan in which immigrant parent's language skills barred him from participating (Rubin, Acting P.J.)

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  • Sales v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2017-08-18
    Practice Area: Immigration Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-18
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Jon P. McCalla,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harry J. Moren (argued), Alexander K. Talarides, and James N. Kramer, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Jesse L. Busen (argued), Trial Attorney; Eric W. Marsteller and Claire L. Workman, Senior Litigation Counsel; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 15-70885

    California murder conviction based on aiding and abetting qualified as aggravated felony for removal purposes (Schroeder, J.)

  • Popa v. Berryhill

    Publication Date: 2017-08-18
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-18
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David K. Duncan, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judge, and Brian M. Morris,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Caldwell (argued), Phoenix, Arizona, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Michael R. Tunick (argued), Assistant Regional Counsel; David Morado, Regional Chief Counsel, Seattle Region X; John S. Leonardo, United States Attorney; Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, Seattle, Washington, for Defendant-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-16848

    ALJ committed legal error in rejecting expert opinions of claimant's functional limitations (Morris, J.)

  • People v. Pennington

    Publication Date: 2017-08-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-17
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette and Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson, Michael R. Johnsen, Victoria B. Wilson and Theresa A. Patterson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Mark R. Feeser, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number:

    Evidence failed to support finding that harbor patrol officer's "primary duty" was law enforcement (Werdegar, J.)

  • Skulason v. California Bureau of Real Estate

    Publication Date: 2017-08-17
    Practice Area: Privacy | Criminal Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-08-16
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Diane S. Shaw, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Lisa W. Chao, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Stephen Lew, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Nhan T. Vu, Deputy Attorney General.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendant and Appellant: Kelly A. Woodruff, Farella Braun + Martel LLP, Aviva J. Gilbert, Farella Braun + Martel LLP.

    Case Number: No. A147047, A147814

    Bureau of Real Estate had no mandatory duty to remove from website publicly available information about licensee's dismissed misdemeanor convictions (Humes, P.J.)

  • Okorie v. Los Angeles Unified School District

    Publication Date: 2017-08-17
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education
    Date Filed: 2017-08-16
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Akudinobi & Ikonte, Chijioke O. Ikonte; Law Office of Metu C. Ogike and Metu Chikezie Ogike for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Anthony J. Bejarano, Assistant General Counsel, and Alexander Molina, Chief Labor and Employment Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. B268733

    Teacher's claims of harassment and discrimination arose from school district's protected activity in investigating molestation claim (Johnson, J.)