• S.H. v. United States

    Publication Date: 2017-04-10
    Practice Area: Damages | Civil Procedure
    Industry: Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-04-10
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Morrison C. England, Jr., District Judge, Presiding Before: Carlos F. Lucero,* Susan P. Graber, and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven B. Stevens (argued), Steven B. Stevens APC, Los Angeles, California; Martin M. Berman, Law Offices of Martin M. Berman, Palm Springs, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: John Samuel Koppel (argued) and Mark B. Stern, Attorneys, Appellate Staff; Benjamin B. Wagner, United States Attorney; Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 15-15000

    Foreign country exception to Federal Tort Claims Act barred family's claims arising from child's premature birth at overseas military base (Lucero, J.)

  • Mavrix Photographs, LLC v. LiveJournal, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-10
    Practice Area: Copyrights
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Date Filed: 2017-04-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Cormac J. Carney, District Judge, Presiding Before: Harry Pregerson, Richard A. Paez, and Morgan Christen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Afrasiabi (argued), Christopher W. Arledge, and John Tehranian, One LLP, Newport Beach, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Wayne Mitchell Barsky (argued), Blaine H. Evanson, and Brandon J. Stoker, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendant-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 14-56596

    Agency law applied to determination of whether website moderators acted as website's agents in permitting users to post copyrighted material (Paez, J.)

  • Nasby v. McDaniel

    Publication Date: 2017-04-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-10
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Larry R. Hicks, District Judge, Presiding Before: Stephen Reinhardt and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges, and Salvador Mendoza, Jr.,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas L. Qualls (argued), Law Office of Thomas L. Qualls Ltd., Reno, Nevada, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Victor-Hugo Schulze, II (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General; Adam Paul Laxalt, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Respondents-Appellees.

    Case Number: Nos. 14-17313, 15-16264

    District court erred in ruling on merits of habeas petition without reviewing state court transcripts (Reinhardt, J.)

  • People v. Martinez

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-09
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Kathleen Alice Kenealy, Chief Deputy and Acting Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler and Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorneys General, Sharon Rhodes and Ryan H. Peeck, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Charles R. Khoury, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant, Francisco Jose Martinez.

    Case Number: No. D067052 No. D067561

    California law criminalizing fraud in sale of securities included fraudulent "money management" contracts (O'Rourke, J.)

  • Scholes v. Lambirth Trucking Company

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Damages | Civil Procedure | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-03-07
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent E. Scholes, in pro. per., for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Anwyl, Scoffield & Steep, James T. Anwyl and Lynn A. Garcia for Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. C070770

    Lack of detail in ordinal complaint precluded application of relation-back doctrine for subsequently filed amendment (Raye, P.J.)

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  • California Chamber of Commerce v. State Air Resources Board

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Environmental Law | Regulation
    Industry: Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-04-06
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni, James R. Parrinello, Steven A. Merksamer, Kurt R. Oneto, Christopher E. Skinnell and Eric J. Miethke for Plaintiffs and Appellants California Chamber of Commerce and Larry Dicke.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Robert W. Byrne, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Gavin G. McCabe, Molly K. Mosley, Deputy Attorney General, David A. Zonana, Robert E. Asperger, M. Elaine Meckenstock, and Bryant B. Cannon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. C075930 No. C075954

    State Air Resources Board's "cap-and-trade" auction program not unlawful tax (Duarte, J.)

  • Stein v. AXIS Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Date Filed: 2017-03-08
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of James N. Fiedler and James N. Fiedler for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Bowman and Brooke, Julian G. Senior and Marion V. Mauch; BatesCarey, Ommid C. Farashahi, Michael T. Skoglund and Tiffany Saltzman-Jones for Defendants and Respondents AXIS Insurance Company and AXIS Capital Holdings Limited.

    Case Number: No. B265069

    Liability policy expressly covered company officer's criminal defense costs on appeal (Chaney, J.)

  • Santillan v. USA Waste of California, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-04-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Andre Birotte, Jr., District Judge, Presiding Before: Harry Pregerson, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Holly Noelle Boyer (argued), and Andrew N. Chang, Esner Chang & Boyer, Pasadena, California; Louanne Masry and John C. Taylor, Taylor & Ring LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher J. Boman (argued), Fisher & Phillips LLP, Irvine, California; Kristen J. Nesbit, Fisher & Phillips LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-55238

    Employee's alleged failure to provide proof of employment eligibility not valid basis for termination (Pregerson, J.)

  • People v. Truong

    Publication Date: 2017-04-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-05
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shawn McGahey Webb, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Noah P. Hill, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Lori Nakaoka, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B263744

    Perpetrator could not be convicted of both theft and receipt of stolen property based on possession of same stolen property (Lui, J.)

  • In re Isabella M.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-13
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary C. Wickham, County Counsel, R. Keith Davis, Assistant County Counsel, and Kimberly Roura, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Liana Serobian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B277142

    Defective notice of dependency proceedings to incarcerated father harmless error (Perluss, P.J.)