Magistrate Judge Autumn Spaeth reversed a Social Security disability denial because the ALJ summarized medical evidence without identifying which testimony she found not credible or explaining what evidence contradicted that testimony, failing the clear-and-convincing standard required by Brown-Hunt
Judge Stephen V. Wilson remanded a Chevrolet Colorado lemon-law case, holding GM could not show even the $50,000 Magnuson-Moss amount-in-controversy threshold because actual damages were measured by payments actually made ($37,410.95), the conclusory willfulness allegation did not support adding civ
Judge Lin denies remand in a Song-Beverly suit over a 2019 GMC Sierra, applying the majority Ninth Circuit rule that a vague lemon-law complaint without vehicle-value allegations does not start the 30-day removal clock and finding the amount in controversy easily exceeds $75,000 once the willful-vio
Judge Gilliam declines interlocutory review of a Bankruptcy Court ruling that the PSLRA’s automatic discovery stay does not shield non-party Directors and Underwriters from third-party subpoenas served by claimants in the PG&E bankruptcy, even though the Directors and Underwriters are also defe
Judge Stephen V. Wilson remanded a Chevrolet Volt lemon-law case after applying the Song-Beverly mileage offset (86,841 miles before first repair) to reduce damages from $42,682 to $11,794, leaving the case below both the $50,000 MMWA and $75,000 diversity thresholds.
Judge Sunshine Sykes dismissed with prejudice a pro se mother’s § 1983 suit against an Orange County family-court judge, prosecutors, and the County over child-custody proceedings, citing judicial and prosecutorial immunity, Younger abstention, Rooker-Feldman, Eleventh Amendment, and failure t
Judge Cynthia Valenzuela sua sponte remanded an unlawful detainer case removed by the tenant on federal-question grounds, holding that unlawful detainer actions do not arise under federal law and federal defenses cannot support removal under Caterpillar v. Williams.
Judge John A. Kronstadt ordered serial ADA plaintiff German Perez — who had filed more than ten construction-related accessibility cases in the prior year — to show cause why the court should not decline supplemental jurisdiction over his state-law Unruh Act claim, channeling it back to California s
Judge Tigar dismisses with prejudice a pro se plaintiff’s sweeping claims that her prompts to ChatGPT created trade secrets and copyrights that OpenAI then commercialized in its Study Together, Deep Research Agent, and ChatGPT Agent features, holding that none of the claims plausibly states a basis
Judge Gilliam denies a pro se TRO that would have blocked a January 6, 2026 sheriff’s sale of plaintiffs’ Pennsylvania home, holding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine likely strips the court of jurisdiction to invalidate the underlying state-court foreclosure judgment, and warning the litigants — who
Magistrate Judge Tse denies plaintiff Anthony McGee’s motions to seal “all juvenile court records,” for default judgment after the case was already dismissed on the merits, and for Rule 60 relief from judgment, while also denying defendants’ request for a vexatious-litigant pre-filing order on proce
The court remanded a quiet-title and declaratory-relief action concerning San Diego real property to state court under the forum-defendant rule, ruling that the California-based defendants could not remove the case to federal court even though diversity existed and rejecting the defendants’ wa
After remand led to an award of $247,681 in past-due Social Security benefits over eight years, the magistrate judge approved $37,920 in attorney’s fees representing 15.3% of the past-due benefits, finding the resulting $1,700-per-hour effective rate reasonable in light of counsel’s risk
Adopting the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation, the court struck Smith Interface Technologies’ indirect infringement contentions against Apple without leave to amend, finding the contentions failed to provide the specific factual identification required by the Southern Distric
Judge Davila grants summary judgment for Pinterest on a putative class action by professional photographers, holding that the DMCA Section 512(c) safe harbor extends to Pinterest’s display of user-uploaded copyrighted images in email and push notifications, not just on the platform itself.
Eastern District of California rejects the federal government’s argument that the entry fiction doctrine and the older Barrera-Echavarria decision foreclose due process protections for noncitizens paroled into the country, ordering immediate release.
Eastern District of California rules on pre-trial motions in limine, allowing the plaintiff in a FEHA disability discrimination case to introduce comparator evidence about other employees’ misconduct and rejecting the employer’s argument that subsequent comparable employment fully cuts o
Fourth District reverses a multi-count conviction because the trial court accepted, without substantial supporting evidence, the prosecution’s stated reason for striking the only Latina juror under amended Code of Civil Procedure section 231.7.
Judge Martínez-Olguín denies a Tesla worker’s motion to revisit an order compelling arbitration of his harassment claims, holding that an old administrative right-to-sue notice was not “newly discovered evidence” and that recent out-of-circuit decisions on the federal sexual-harassment arbitration c
Eastern District of California issues a temporary restraining order requiring ICE to immediately release an Eritrean asylum-seeker re-detained at a routine check-in, holding the detention violated both the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
Magistrate Judge Spero grants HealthRIGHT 360 judgment on the pleadings on the survivor claim brought by the daughter of a man who fatally overdosed in its San Francisco sober-living program, holding that California law forbids dressing up a wrongful-death claim as a survivor cause of action.
Judge Martínez-Olguín refuses to send a Song-Beverly lemon-law case back to Alameda County Superior Court, holding that Jaguar Land Rover’s 30-day removal clock did not start until it obtained the underlying sales contract showing the amount in controversy.
Judge Pitts denies in large part Santa Clara County’s motion to dismiss a hospital sterile-processing educator’s First Amendment and California whistleblower claims, but trims away time-barred individual defendants and a stale FEHA retaliation theory.
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.