Judge Anne Hwang granted plaintiff’s motion to remand a foreclosure suit to Ventura County Superior Court after he amended his complaint to drop federal claims, rejecting the defendants’ fraudulent-joinder argument as not meeting the Ninth Circuit’s heavy burden under Grancare.
Judge Pitts dismisses all twenty causes of action brought by a Marina dentist-turned-landlord who claimed the city escalated property-code enforcement against him after he filed Public Records Act requests, finding pleading deficiencies on Monell, First Amendment, equal protection, takings, excessiv
Judge Christina Snyder granted summary judgment for VMG Partners and other investors on a Defend Trade Secrets Act claim because plaintiff Vitamin Friends LLC could not show it owned the supplier trade secrets — its affiliate Better Nutritionals did. Repeat fraud, RICO, and breach-of-fiduciary-duty
The court ordered the immediate release of a Honduran national who had been on an immigration Order of Supervision since 1999 and detained at his routine annual check-in without notice of revocation or the regulatory interview, ruling that ICE’s failure to follow its own procedures violated du
Eastern District of California grants preliminary injunction ordering immediate release of an asylum-seeker re-detained by ICE without a bond hearing, holding that the Due Process Clause required a pre-deprivation hearing.