| Case # | Name | Category | Court | Judge | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
23-393
|
U.S. v. Rodriguez-Arvizu
Agents' failure to inform arrestee of his charges did not cause him to make incriminating statements, and therefore that violation did not require suppression of those statements. |
Criminal Law and Procedure |
|
M. Smith | Mar. 18, 2025 |
|
22-30179
|
U.S. v. Thompson
District court's reduced sentence for defendant, who committed the second largest data breach in the U.S. at the time, was clear error. |
Criminal Law and Procedure |
|
D. Forrest | Mar. 18, 2025 |
|
23-1247
|
Singh v. Bondi
Adverse credibility determination in asylum proceedings was not error where applicant's declaration appeared to be a "canned claim" that copied linguistic and narrative components from other asylum applicants' declarations. |
Immigration |
|
L. VanDyke | Mar. 18, 2025 |
|
C099048
|
People v. Gray
Breaking locks to access utility bins and compartments on exterior of utility trucks was sufficient to support a conviction for second-degree burglary of a vehicle. |
Criminal Law and Procedure |
|
L. Earl | Mar. 14, 2025 |
|
A169912
|
Kuo v. Dublin Unified School Dist.
Labor Code provision classifying school volunteers as "employees" applied to school volunteer who was killed, thereby rendering workers' compensation plaintiffs' sole remedy. |
Torts, Workers' Compensation |
|
D. Simonds | Mar. 14, 2025 |
|
A166007
|
Six4Three v. Facebook
Anti-SLAPP motion was appropriately granted against developer seeking to use defendant Facebook's photo data for an app allowing users to search for photos of people in swimsuits. |
Anti-SLAPP |
|
T. Brown | Mar. 14, 2025 |
|
23-927
|
U.S. v. Sullivan
Defendant was not entitled to a jury instruction requiring a nexus between his conduct and a Federal Trade Commission investigation for a Section 1505 obstruction conviction. |
Criminal Law and Procedure |
|
M. McKeown | Mar. 14, 2025 |
|
23-2664
|
Bird v. Dzurenda
Prison officials who retaliated against prisoner for complaining about another inmate were shielded by qualified immunity because it was not clearly established that doing so violated the inmate's civil rights. |
Qualified Immunity, Prisoners' Rights |
|
P. Bumatay | Mar. 14, 2025 |
|
23-35439
|
Race v. Salmonsen
Despite district court's proper adherence to promptly review and dismiss habeas petition as untimely, due process considerations necessitated that petitioner be notified and provided opportunity to be heard before dismissal. |
Habeas Corpus |
|
H. Thomas | Mar. 14, 2025 |
|
C099562
|
Volcano Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
Public Utilities Commission's actions and decisions regarding broadband affiliates, one receiving subsidy funding which the other benefited from, was not an unconstitutional taking nor outside of its jurisdictional purview. |
Utilities |
|
J. Renner | Mar. 17, 2025 |
|
25-68
|
Perez v. Rose Hills Company
Because defendant employer's violation-rate assumption was reasonably based on plaintiff employee's wage-and-hour complaint, it met the Class Action Fairness Act federal jurisdictional amount requirement. |
Civil Procedure, Employment Law |
|
E. Miller | Mar. 17, 2025 |
|
A170401
|
Conservatorship of the Person of A.J.
Trial court that determined conservatee was gravely disabled could not delegate its duty to designate the appropriate, least restrictive, alternative for placement of the conservatee to the Public Conservator. |
Conservatorship |
|
V. Rodriguez | Mar. 17, 2025 |
|
22-16376
|
Flynt v. Bonta
The California Business and Professions Code prohibition against granting cardroom licenses to individuals with a stipulated financial interest or control over a gambling business did not violate the Commerce Clause. |
Commercial Law |
|
D. Bress | Mar. 17, 2025 |
|
23-35440
|
U.S. v. Idaho
Order |
|
Mar. 17, 2025 | ||
|
21-16756
|
Yukutake v. Lopez
State law requiring in-person inspection of handguns within five days of acquiring them violated the Second Amendment because it had no relevantly similar historical example of firearm regulation. |
Constitutional Law |
|
D. Collins | Mar. 17, 2025 |
|
E082951
|
People v. Faustinos
Disagreeing with appellate opinion from one month prior, a trial court's order declining to act on Penal Code Section 1172.1 petition is not appealable because it does not affect a defendant's substantial rights. |
Criminal Law and Procedure |
|
M. Raphael | Mar. 17, 2025 |
|
23-16022
|
Lake v. Gates (In re Parker and Olsen)
Lead attorneys for Plaintiffs alleging the insufficiency Arizona's voting system were subject to sanctions for filing a baseless complaint. |
Attorneys, Civil Procedure |
|
R. Gould | Mar. 17, 2025 |
|
23-16023
|
Lake v. Gates (In re Dershowitz)
Of-counsel attorneys may be sanctioned under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 if they sign a pleading without a reasonable basis to believe that the pleadings are not frivolous and are based on facts. |
Attorneys |
|
R. Gould | Mar. 17, 2025 |
|
F087088
|
K.C. v. County of Merced
Despite statute reviving time-barred claims for childhood sexual assault, County was immunized from liability for claims of alleged sexual assault occurring in foster care that were not investigated. |
Immunity, Torts |
|
G. Fain | Mar. 13, 2025 |
|
24-427
|
Hittle v. City of Stockton
Order |
|
Mar. 13, 2025 | ||
|
158, Orig.
|
Alabama v. California
Order |
|
Mar. 13, 2025 | ||
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22-55237
|
D'Braunstein v. California Highway Patrol
District court erroneously applied qualified immunity to officer who arrested and delayed medical care to car accident victim who had suffered a stroke, believing him to be on drugs. |
Qualified Immunity |
|
D. Bress | Mar. 13, 2025 |
|
23-35588
|
Bussey v. Driscoll
When a request for a correction is based on combat-induced PTSD, the Army Board for Correction of Military Records must give liberal consideration to the circumstances resulting in the discharge. |
Veterans' Affairs, Administrative Agencies |
|
E. Wallach | Mar. 13, 2025 |
|
23-4363
|
Kumar v. Koester
Plaintiff's claim that their injury was self-censorship of nondiscriminatory religious conduct out of fear that it could be misinterpreted as discriminatory was insufficient to evidence Free Exercise and other constitutional claim injuries for Article III standing. |
Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure |
|
R. Tallman | Mar. 13, 2025 |
|
E082722
|
People v. Serna
Because mens rea for Penal Code Section 148(a)(1), resisting an officer, does not require actual knowledge, defense counsel's failure to admit defendant's health records was not ineffective assistance. |
Criminal Law and Procedure |
|
A. McKinster | Mar. 12, 2025 |
|
22-16499
|
U.S. v. $1,106,775 in U.S. Currency
Striking claim to return seized currency was not an abuse of discretion where claimant refused to respond to supplemental interrogatories propounded by the government ostensibly seeking to clarify claimant's standing. |
Civil Procedure |
|
K. Lee | Mar. 12, 2025 |
|
22-50204
|
U.S. v. Walthall
Defendant's conviction for solicitation to murder judge and others involved in his case only required evidence corroborating his intent for someone to commit the crime. |
Criminal Law and Procedure |
|
E. Miller | Mar. 12, 2025 |
|
24-1967
|
Martinez Santoyo v. Boyden
Sixth Amendment speedy trial right was not incorporated into international extradition treaty and did not apply to proceedings thereunder. |
International Law, Criminal Law and Procedure |
|
J. Owens | Mar. 12, 2025 |
|
23-55718
|
Estate of Najera-Aguirre v. City of Riverside
An officer who shot a suspect six times without warning, two times of which were while the suspect's back may have been turned, was not entitled to qualified immunity. |
Qualified Immunity |
|
M. McKeown | Mar. 12, 2025 |
|
24-659
|
Roshan v. McCauley
A disciplinary proceeding by the California Department of Real Estate was a "quasi-criminal" proceeding and therefore *Younger* abstention was appropriate. |
Administrative Agencies |
|
J. Owens | Mar. 12, 2025 |
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