The court dismissed without leave to amend a §1983 suit against a senior deputy clerk of the California Court of Appeal who allegedly refused filings, yelled, and issued unauthorized orders, ruling that quasi-judicial immunity bars damages claims and that §1983 itself bars injunctive relief against
The court denied without prejudice an Armenian asylum-seeker’s habeas petition challenging his post-removal-order detention while ICE seeks a third country to receive him, ruling that he had been detained less than six months and was still within Zadvydas’s presumptively reasonable remov
In an APA challenge to ICE’s withdrawal of the school’s certification to enroll foreign students, the magistrate judge refused to compel the agency to add documents to the administrative record or to allow a deposition of the deciding official, ruling that the school’s claims of mi
The court applied the six-factor Banda test and concluded that seven months of mandatory detention of a Russian asylum-seeker who had been found to have a credible fear of persecution did not yet violate due process or require a bond hearing.
After granting the plaintiff’s request to proceed without paying the filing fee, the court dismissed her five-sentence complaint alleging RICO and due-process violations against a single defendant for failure to state a plausible claim and noted serious doubts about whether venue was proper in
The court denied remand in a Song-Beverly Act/Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act lemon-law case against General Motors over a 2018 GMC Yukon, ruling that GM’s removal was timely because the federal MMWA claim alone did not affirmatively show the amount in controversy and pre-litigation repair records
On the second screening of an 80-year-old veteran’s pro se complaint against VA officials and his primary-care doctor, the court dismissed his amended due-process, civil-rights conspiracy, federal elder-abuse, and Older Americans Act claims with prejudice and granted limited leave to amend onl
The court dismissed without prejudice a Haitian detainee’s habeas due-process claim for failure to exhaust appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals after he received four individualized custody reviews from immigration judges, and rejected his Zadvydas challenge because he has no final remo
After IFP screening of an amended complaint by a state prisoner experiencing a mental-health crisis, the court allowed his Eighth Amendment excessive-force claim to proceed against two correctional officers who allegedly held him against a hot metal plate causing severe burns, but dismissed his deli
In a putative class action alleging that SD Bullion’s ‘The Lowest Price. Period.’ advertising for precious-metal coins was false because competitors charged less, the court trimmed several theories at the motion-to-dismiss stage but allowed the consumer’s core false-advertisi