Eastern District of California dismisses a mandamus petition seeking to compel U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to adjudicate a Form I-601 waiver application, holding that 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(9)(B)(v) strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review delays in waiver processing.
Eastern District of California allows the plaintiff in a civil sexual assault case against a Sacramento commercial real estate developer to proceed under a pseudonym, dismisses her assault claim with leave to amend, and sustains battery, sexual battery, IIED, and most other claims based on allegatio
Judge Christina Snyder granted motions to intervene by two animal welfare groups in Triumph Foods’ constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 12 farm animal confinement law, while imposing conditions including coordinated joint filings, no discovery between intervenors and Triu
Judge Anne Hwang sua sponte remanded a Mercedes-Benz lemon-law case after finding the defendant’s actual-damages calculation ignored the new January 2025 statutory offsets under Cal. Civ. Code § 871.27 and the conclusory willfulness allegation could not support adding $124,012 in civil penalti
Judge Josephine L. Staton granted a TRO ordering ICE to release a Vietnamese detainee at Adelanto subject to his prior Order of Supervision conditions, finding he satisfied the Winter factors. The court enjoined re-detention inconsistent with ICE regulations and set a preliminary injunction hearing
Judge Kenly Kiya Kato ordered ICE to show cause why a habeas petition should not be granted to a noncitizen detained nine months at Adelanto whom Belarus refuses to recognize as a citizen, finding the government’s bare assertion that it was ‘actively seeking travel documents’ insuf
The court dismissed three Monell municipal-liability claims against the City of San Diego based on a 2022 wrongful-arrest incident at Mission Beach, ruling that allegations of unrelated SDPD incidents did not establish a longstanding custom, that the failure-to-train theory required a pattern of sim
After the California Supreme Court denied a state habeas petition while the federal stay-and-abey motion was pending, the magistrate judge denied the stay request as moot, finding that the petitioner had now fully exhausted his federal claims because they were substantially equivalent to claims pres
Central District of California denies remand of a Song-Beverly lemon-law case, holding that a state-court civil case cover sheet checking a damages box is not an “initial pleading” or “other paper” that starts the 30-day removal clock.
Judge Donato grants summary judgment for Maximus Grisso and remands the SSA’s denial of his Title II disability insurance benefits, holding that the administrative law judge erred at step two of the five-step sequential evaluation by finding Grisso’s fibromyalgia not a severe impairment.