• Defenders of Wildlife v. Zinke

    Publication Date: 2017-05-18
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-18
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Michael W. Fitzgerald, District Judge, Presiding Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and JOHN B. OWENS, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD R. KORMAN,**District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric R. Giltzenstein (argued) and William N. Lawton, Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Varu Chilakamarri (argued), J. David Gunter II, and Andrew C. Mergen; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 15-55806

    Bureau of Land Management's Biological Opinion regarding solar project's impacts on desert tortoise neither legally nor factually flawed (M.D. Smith, J.)

  • Spencer v. Peters

    Publication Date: 2017-05-18
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-18
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Benjamin H. Settle, District Judge, Presiding Before: Susan P. Graber, Sandra S. Ikuta, and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen Zellner (argued), Kathleen T. Zellner & Associates P.C., Downers Grove, Illinois, for Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.
    for defendant: Jeffrey A.O. Freimund (argued), Freimund Jackson & Tardif PLLC, Olympia, Washington, for Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant Michael Davidson.

    Case Number: Nos. 14-35689, 14-35737

    Direct evidence of detective's deliberate fabrication of evidence relieves plaintiff of proving detective's knowledge of his innocence (Graber, J.)

  • People v. Edwards

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-16
    Court: C.A. 6th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff and Respondent: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Seth K. Schalit, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Victoria Ratnikova, Deputy Attorney General.
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendant and Appellant: Marcia Rachel Clark, Under Appointment by the Sixth District Appellate Program.

    Case Number: No. H042144

    Accused's illegally obtained inconsistent statements properly used to impeach defense mental health expert during sanity phase of trial (Mihara, J.)

  • People v. Marquez

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-16
    Court: C.A. 5th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Daniel B. Bernstein, Peter H. Smith, and Stephanie A. Mitchell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Jerome P. Wallingford, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. F070609

    Prop 57 does not apply retroactively (Peña, J.)

  • In re Marriage of G

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-16
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis Temko and Stephen Temko for Appellant.
    for defendant: Judith Klein for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. D070495

    No abuse of discretion in denying restraining order to wife who instigated violent confrontations with husband (Dato, J.)

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  • Garcia v. Pexco, LLC

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Date Filed: 2017-04-24
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rastegar Law Group, Farzad Rastegar, Douglas W. Perlman, Joshua N. Lange for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Klatte, Budensiek & Young-Agriesti, Ernest W. Klatte, III, and Yeun C. Yim for Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. G052872

    Temporary staffing agency's arbitration clause encompassed employee's claims against both staffing agency and assigned employer (Ikola, J.)

  • Hardesty v. State Mining and Geology Board

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources | Environmental Law | Regulation
    Industry: Energy
    Date Filed: 2017-04-17
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Diepenbrock Elkin Gleason LLP and Jennifer L. Dauer for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, David Chaney, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John Saurenman, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christiana Tiedemann, Deputy Attorney General, David G. Alderson and Tara L. Mueller, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. C079617

    Federal mining patents had no effect on application of state regulation of mining (Duarte, J.)

  • People v. Hudson

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-16
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Bruce M. Slavin and Allan Yannow, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Jonathan Soglin and Kevin King, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. A147910

    Victim's attempt to prevent car theft transformed theft into carjacking (Simons, J.)

  • Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Bradford

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-05-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dana L. Christensen, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher, Raymond C. Fisher, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy M. Bechtold (argued), Bechtold Law Firm, Missoula, Montana, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Thekla Hansen-Young (argued), John P. Tustin, Robert P. Stockman, and Andrew C. Mergen, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Dana Jacobsen, Office of the Regional Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, Denver, Colorado; Alan Campbell, Office of the General Counsel, United States Department of Agriculture, Missoula, Montana; for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 14-35786

    Closure of roads by berms or barriers sufficed to prevent them from counting towards linear miles of total roads permitted under forest plan (Fletcher, J.)

  • Davies v. Benov

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Michael J. Seng, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Ronald M. Gould, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cody Harris (argued), Philip J. Tassin, Steven P. Ragland, and Elliot R. Peters, Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory T. Broderick (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Camil A. Skipper, Appellate Chief; Phillip A. Talbert, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Sacramento, California; for Respondent-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-17256

    Waiver provision in plea agreement precluded collateral attack on sentence (Gould, J.)