The court dismisses the claims against the County Defendants, finding no Article III standing for injunctive relief and no cognizable claims as pleaded, but allows Anaya to amend the identified deficiencies by December 3, 2026.
The court granted Ranger Hillary Fitzpatrick summary judgment on the sole remaining Fourteenth Amendment class-of-one claim because material differences separated Barroca from his proposed comparator and several rational bases supported citing him but only warning the dog owner.
The court dismissed claims against two defendants who merely reviewed grievances, but allowed an Eighth Amendment inadequate-space claim to proceed against the warden and CDCR secretary, ordering service under CDCR’s e-service program.
The court discharged the initial show-cause order after plaintiff filed a first amended complaint dropping Bivens claims and asserting APA and mandamus claims, but issued a second order to show cause identifying deficiencies in pleading final agency action, a clear nondiscretionary duty, and the leg
Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler denied Workday’s motion for a protective order seeking to defer its response to plaintiffs’ October 9 letter identifying six categories of allegedly deficient document production and the deposition of data scientist David Dahan until after Workday’s N
The Northern District of California dismissed Jaroszuk’s action against Meta Platforms without prejudice because she did not provide a corrected summons for service or respond to an order to show cause, and four Henderson factors supported dismissal under Rule 41(b).
A self-represented employment-discrimination plaintiff was diligent, but the discrete remaining discovery justified an eleven-week extension rather than the six-month continuance he requested.
The court granted plaintiffs leave to file a third amended complaint to incorporate discovery-obtained allegations but denied joinder of three proposed new plaintiffs because their claims involve factually and temporally distinct disputes over erosion control, drainage, and grading rather than the c
The court grants the pro se petitioner’s IFP application but orders her to show cause by November 30, 2026 why her § 2241 petition challenging an ongoing state criminal prosecution should not be dismissed for failure to establish the custody requirement and because Younger abstention and exhau
The court dismissed several claims and requests for relief for lack of standing or redressability and because the Regents are not a § 1983 person, but refused to dismiss the letter-of-censure claim on preclusion or exhaustion grounds.
The Court of Appeal affirmed the dismissal of Unfair Competition Law claims against Airbnb and its payment subsidiary because the complaint alleged no facts showing they act as escrow holders under California’s Escrow Law.
In a nonprecedential memorandum, the Ninth Circuit affirmed denial of intervention because judgment creditors who had already collected the $25,000 policy limit held only a speculative interest in a possible future assignment of the insured’s bad faith claims.
In an unpublished memorandum, the Ninth Circuit held that Section 230 bars most of Jane Doe’s claims against Meta over Instagram but not her design-defect theory about inadequate sex-trafficking reporting tools, and remanded.
In an unpublished memorandum, the Ninth Circuit dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a temporary restraining order, holding the denial was not tantamount to denial of a preliminary injunction.
In an unpublished memorandum, the Ninth Circuit denied a Mexican citizen’s petition for review of the denial of cancellation of removal because he did not meaningfully dispute the Agency’s finding that he violated probation for purposes of the Federal First Offender Act, and it lifted th
After the Supreme Court vacated its earlier decision and remanded in light of Mullin v. Doe, the Ninth Circuit denied the Government’s motion to stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal, denied its alternative request for an administrative stay of at least 21 days, and said it would set
In an unpublished memorandum, the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a pro se § 1983 suit, holding the criminal-proceedings claims Heck-barred and the property-loss claims insufficiently pleaded given available state post-deprivation remedies.
In an unpublished memorandum, the Ninth Circuit denied a pro se petitioner’s petition for review of the denial of asylum, withholding and Convention Against Torture relief because he did not challenge key agency findings in his opening brief and showed no prejudice from the denial of a continu
On Election Day 2026, a majority of the Ninth Circuit en banc court reinstated a panel order staying a district court’s temporary restraining order that had barred federal officials from demanding ballot sequestration and threatening election officials with prosecution.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered judgment dismissing Jerry Ong’s action against Noble Ale Works, Inc. without prejudice for lack of Article III standing, pursuant to the court’s same-day minute order denying his motion for default judgment.
The district court ordered the plaintiff to show cause in writing by November 10, 2026, why the action should not be dismissed for lack of prosecution after the defendant’s response deadline passed without further action.
A federal magistrate judge ordered a pro se habeas petitioner to show cause why his challenge to a 1993 conviction should not be dismissed as untimely by twenty-seven years, unexhausted, and potentially subject to Younger abstention due to ongoing state proceedings.
A federal district court in Los Angeles ordered a plaintiff to explain why the court should not decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over his Unruh Act and other state law claims, requiring declarations about whether he qualifies as a high-frequency litigant under California law.
California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two, affirmed a five-year domestic violence restraining order, holding that past abuse need not be corroborated or accompanied by a present credible threat and that the husband’s procedural and evidentiary challenges failed on the ce