• King v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois

    Publication Date: 2017-09-11
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Employment Litigation | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance | Cargo and Shipping
    Date Filed: 2017-09-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Cathy Ann Bencivengo, District Judge, Presiding Before: Richard A. Paez, Marsha S. Berzon, and Morgan Christen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick A. Calhoon (argued) and Craig A. Miller, Law Offices of Craig A. Miller, San Diego, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Eileen R. Ridley (argued) and Alan R. Ouellette, Foley & Lardner LLP San Francisco, California, for Defendant-Appellee Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois.

    Case Number: No. 15-55880

    Lack of clarity in disclosure of modifications to retiree health plan violated ERISA (Christen, J.)

  • Smith v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2017-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-09-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Andrew P. Gordon, District Judge, Presiding Before: Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski, Circuit Judges, and Terrence Berg,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan M. Kirshbaum (argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender; Rene L. Valladares, Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Wilson (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General; Adam Paul Laxalt, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Respondents-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 15-16967

    State court's filing of amended judgment reinstating prior conviction constituted "new judgment" for purposes of AEDPA statute of limitations on federal habeas petition (Reinhardt, J.)

  • United States v. Faagai

    Publication Date: 2017-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-09-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Susan Oki Mollway, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Michael Daly Hawkins, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chris A. Thomas (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Florence T. Nakakuni, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Honolulu, Hawaii; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Thomas M. Otake (argued), Honolulu, Hawaii, for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 15-10621

    Suspects' use of code words for drugs provided probable cause for warrantless search (Bea, J.)

  • Wild Wilderness v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2017-09-11
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-09-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Thomas M. Coffin, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Richard R. Clifton and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas C. Buchele (argued), Earthrise Law Center, Portland, Oregon; Lauren Marie Rule (argued), Advocates for the West, Portland, Oregon; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Sean Edward Martin (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Kelly A. Zusman, Appellate Chief; Billy J. Williams, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Portland, Oregon; for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 14-35505

    Forest Service did not violate NFMA or NEPA in approving parking for motorized recreationalists in national forest (Nguyen, J.)

  • United States v. Barragan

    Publication Date: 2017-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-09-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Irma E. Gonzalez, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Kermit V. Lipez,*Carlos T. Bea, and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Helen H. Hong (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, United States Attorney's Office, San Diego, California, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: John C. Lemon (argued), San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellant Jesus Barragan.

    Case Number: No. 13-50516 No. 13-50518 No. 13-50525 No. 13-50531

    Prosecutor improperly urged jurors to convict defendant to send message of deterrence (Hurwitz, J.)

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  • People v. Wallace

    Publication Date: 2017-09-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-09-07
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Donna M. Provenzano, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Masha A. Dabiza, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Anna Dorn, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. A149049

    Warrantless search of arrestee's vehicle could not be justified either as inventory search or under "inevitable discovery" doctrine (Stewart, J.)

  • People v. Pickard

    Publication Date: 2017-09-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-06-30
    Court: Super. Ct. (App. Div.)
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Summer Stephan, District Attorney, Lilia Garcia, Deputy District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Zander, for Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No.: CA269335

    Nonconsensual drug testing of arrestee's blood violated Fourth Amendment (by the court)

  • 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)

  • People v. Vasquez

    Publication Date: 2017-09-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-29
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Eric A. Swenson, Lynne G. McGinnis and Kristine Alton Gutierrez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Carl J. Fabian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. D069298

    Prejudicial error to allow victim's handwritten "timeline" of alleged sexual abuse to be displayed at trial (Aaron, J.)

  • People v. Ling

    Publication Date: 2017-09-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-05
    Court: Super. Ct. (App. Div.)
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen M. Wagstaffe, District Attorney, Kimberley Perrotti, Deputy District Attorney and Mary Louise Christinsen, Deputy District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Law Offices of Marsanne Weese, Marsanne Weese, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. AD-5574

    Arrestee's silence could not be construed as voluntary consent to blood draw (Davis, P.J.)