Eastern District of California recommends denying a habeas corpus petition by a state prisoner serving 25 years to life, holding that the absence of clearly established Supreme Court law requiring a jury instruction on attempted criminal threats in a non-capital case forecloses federal habeas relief
Eastern District of California compels a warehouse worker’s individual PAGA claim to arbitration and stays the representative PAGA claim, applying the California Supreme Court’s decision in Adolph v. Uber to find that splitting the action does not violate California law.
The court sua sponte dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction a Russian asylum-seeker’s habeas petition challenging the merits of an immigration officer’s negative credible-fear determination, citing the Supreme Court’s Thuraissigiam decision and 8 U.S.C. § 1252(e)(5).
Judge Christina Snyder awarded $247,897 in attorneys’ fees and $4,037 in costs to plaintiffs after a $1.6 million fraud verdict against former Baldwin Park City Attorney Tafoya, but declined to apply any lodestar multiplier — finding the legal issues were not extraordinary, counsel displayed o
Judge Percy Anderson denied remand of a FedEx wage-and-hour class action, holding CAFA’s minimal diversity and $5 million amount-in-controversy thresholds were both established by conservative assumptions and workforce evidence. The court rejected plaintiff’s Sonner argument because the
Judge Dale S. Fischer remanded a FEHA whistleblower-retaliation suit against U.S. Bank, holding that Bogaski’s self-serving denial declaration could not establish fraudulent joinder where the plaintiff could possibly amend to allege the FEHA aiding-and-abetting elements (knowledge plus substan
Judge Fernando Aenlle-Rocha ordered serial ADA plaintiff German Perez to show cause why the court should not decline supplemental jurisdiction over his Unruh Act claim under Schutza v. Cuddeback, requiring a declaration on his high-frequency-litigant status under Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 425.55.
Magistrate Judge Karen E. Scott reversed a Social Security denial because the vocational expert failed to explain how the claimant — who could not walk or stand for six hours — could perform the ‘light work’ alternative jobs identified, where the DOT’s definition of light work pote
In a U.S. citizen’s APA action seeking to compel adjudication of his Iraqi mother’s visa application that has been in administrative processing in Amman, Jordan since September 2023, the court denied dismissal of the APA unreasonable-delay claim — declining to apply the TRAC factors at t
Magistrate Judge Beeler dismisses with prejudice the Title VII and ADEA claims of a 40-year-old Thai-American job applicant who repeatedly applied to Google for driver and management positions, holding he failed to exhaust administrative remedies, and dismisses his § 1981 discrimination claim with o