The Northern District of California preliminarily barred VK from pursuing its Moscow lawsuit over Apple’s App Store removals, finding that the parties’ developer agreement required the dispute to be litigated in California and that the injunction’s effect on international comity wa
The Northern District of California granted a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction over a Japanese citizen and resident, finding that the plaintiffs’ alleged injuries in California were insufficient to establish that the defendant purposefully directed his activities at the foru
The court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss, finding that the asserted patent claims were directed to the abstract idea of reciprocal arrangements between websites and lacked an inventive concept, rendering them ineligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
The Northern District of California granted two administrative motions to seal portions of filings related to a motion for partial reconsideration, finding that the need to protect personal identifying information and prevent identity theft constituted compelling reasons to overcome the presumption
A federal district court partially granted a pro se plaintiff’s Rule 60(b) motion, vacating the dismissal of claims against two defendants due to excusable neglect but upholding the dismissal with prejudice of a third defendant for failure to serve process.
A federal magistrate judge found that the nearly eighteen-month civil immigration detention of an Afghan asylum seeker granted withholding of removal had become punitive and no longer reasonably related to its purposes, recommending her immediate release.
A federal magistrate judge recommended granting Xiaoyan Jiang’s habeas petition and ordering her immediate release, finding that her immigration detention without pre-deprivation notice or a hearing violated procedural due process.
A federal district court adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendation and granted habeas relief to an immigration detainee held for over seven months without a bond hearing, finding that prolonged mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c) violated due process and ordering a bond hearing wher
A federal district judge adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendations, granted an immigration detainee’s habeas petition, ordered his immediate release, and barred re-detention without specified statutory and constitutional protections.
A federal magistrate judge granted a self-represented plaintiff leave to file a third amended complaint that adds ten Doe defendants and factual detail to existing disability-discrimination and retaliation claims, finding no bad faith, substantial prejudice, or futility despite two prior amendments.
A federal court denied a college baseball player’s request to revisit the denial of emergency eligibility relief, granted in part and denied in part his renewed in forma pauperis motion, and dismissed his complaint for failing to plausibly plead an antitrust market or market-wide competitive h
The Northern District of California dismissed Stephen Turner’s third amended complaint over a $1,547.28 hotel tax refund because his unsupported damages allegations could not establish the more-than-$75,000 amount required for diversity jurisdiction.
A federal judge in California transferred a former Ben & Jerry’s board chair’s defamation suit against Unilever to the Southern District of New York, finding her tort claims were bound by broad forum-selection clauses in two agreements, including one she did not sign but knowingly e
The Eastern District of California sua sponte remanded a removed unlawful detainer action to Fresno County Superior Court because the complaint asserted only a state-law claim and possible federal defenses could not establish federal question jurisdiction.
A federal district court granted a temporary restraining order requiring the immediate release of an immigrant detained by ICE at a USCIS interview, finding he was likely to succeed on claims that his detention without a hearing violated his substantive and procedural due process rights under the Fi
A federal magistrate judge denied a plaintiff’s motion for a protective order, holding that a lawyer’s inability to locate his client is not good cause under Rule 26(c) to bar a deposition the defendants are entitled to take.
A federal district court granted a habeas petition and ordered the immediate release of an immigration detainee, holding that his re-detention without advance notice or a pre-detention hearing violated due process.
The court dismissed an immigration detainee’s first amended habeas petition without prejudice because he had not shown that his detention exceeded the period reasonably necessary to accomplish removal, while expressly preserving future habeas or bond relief if circumstances change.
A federal district court granted an asylum applicant’s habeas petition and ordered his immediate release, finding that detention without a pre-deprivation hearing violated due process and that a later bond denial did not cure the violation.
A federal judge granted two motions to seal portions of an expert report in a patent dispute, holding that claim construction materials are more than tangentially related to the merits and therefore require compelling reasons to seal.
A magistrate judge recommended dismissing Luis Alberto Alarcon Nava’s habeas petition because it was an unauthorized successive challenge to his 2012 Kern County judgment and its Racial Justice Act and related counsel claims did not state cognizable grounds for federal habeas relief.
A federal court ordered a state prisoner, whom the court found had at least three prior dismissals as frivolous, malicious, or for failure to state a claim and identified six prior dismissals counting as strikes in total, to show cause why the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s three-strikes rule
A magistrate judge recommended granting a Honduran detainee’s habeas petition and ordering his immediate release because he spent more than a year in immigration custody without notice of, or access to, the bond-hearing procedures governing his detention.
A California federal court granted in part and denied in part Anthropic’s motion to dismiss, allowing Smith’s CLRA, negligent-misrepresentation, and breach-of-contract claims to proceed while dismissing Kahn’s CLRA, the UCL/FAL, and implied-covenant claims with leave to amend.