Magistrate Judge Corley denies the International Swimming League’s eve-of-trial requests to allow its founder Konstantin Grigorishin to testify remotely from Switzerland and to bar World Aquatics from arguing that the lawsuit itself was a superseding cause of ISL’s damages, in this long-running anti
Magistrate Judge Illman approves a $42,800 attorney fee under Social Security Act § 406(b) for counsel who secured $200,027 in past-due disability benefits for his client on remand, finding an effective hourly rate of about $1,350 reasonable and ordering the EAJA offset.
Judge Seeborg upholds the Provider Reimbursement Review Board’s denial of an unopposed reinstatement request after four major Bay Area hospitals — Contra Costa Regional, SF General, Stanford, and UCSF Medical Center — accidentally withdrew their entire FY 2007 Medicare outlier payment appeals while
Judge Martínez-Olguín dismisses with leave to amend a pro se mandamus petition by a developmentally disabled adult and his stepfather seeking SSA action against a representative payee that allegedly stopped paying his rent, holding the petitioners had not exhausted SSA administrative procedures.
Chief Judge Seeborg dismisses without leave to amend a former BART electrician’s common-law wrongful-termination/constructive-discharge claim, holding that under Lopez v. Southern Cal. Rapid Transit District a California public entity cannot be sued in tort without an authorizing statute.
Magistrate Judge Hixson grants in part Mixedbread AI’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, dismissing AI startup co-founder Julius Lipp’s conversion and California Penal Code § 496 claims under the economic loss rule, while leaving the breach-of-contract counts intact.
Judge Breyer adopts a magistrate’s report and recommendation dismissing pro se plaintiff Chikodi Chima’s second federal lawsuit against 26 defendants — lawyers, social workers, police, financial institutions, and the City and County of San Francisco — arising from a state-court child custody dispute
Magistrate Judge Tse declines to tax costs against Vincent Bryant — an unhoused plaintiff now in a vegetative state after being shot in the face by Berkeley police — applying all five Ninth Circuit factors that justify departing from the Rule 54(d)(1) presumption favoring the prevailing party.
Judge Orrick grants summary judgment for Comerica Bank on its acceleration of a $5.9 million commercial real estate loan to Alexander Group, LLC, holding that the loan documents are unambiguous and that Alexander Group triggered acceleration by missing payments and failing to provide required corpor
Judge Illston transfers a Social Security ALJ’s disability-accommodation suit against the SSA Commissioner to the Central District of California, where the plaintiff’s assigned hearing office is located, applying the federal-employee venue provisions of Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act and the c