Central District of California enters a preliminary injunction barring federal immigration officials from re-detaining petitioner without complying with required procedures, holding the case is not moot under Nielsen v. Preap and that the Winter factors continue to support relief.
Central District of California denies the federal government’s motion to stay a partial final judgment that prohibits ICE from entering home curtilage to make warrantless arrests through “knock and talk” encounters, finding the government unlikely to succeed on appeal and unable to show irreparable
Central District of California allows the family of a man who died of a fentanyl overdose at Twin Towers to proceed against Sheriff’s deputies for deliberate indifference to dangerous jail conditions and against Los Angeles County for failing to train staff to stop drug smuggling, while dismissing m
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 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
Judge Kenly Kiya Kato ordered ADA plaintiff Darwin Boggs to show cause why his suit against Hunter’s Nursery should not be dismissed for lack of Article III standing, finding his ‘wishes to return’ deterrence allegations were boilerplate and conclusory under Murthy v. Missouri and
After two Ninth Circuit reversals, Judge Jesus G. Bernal entered judgment for Claremont Unified School District following a bench trial in this First Amendment retaliation case, finding the cancelled and reduced field trips to Riley’s Farm reflected parental consent withdrawals (mandated by Ca
Magistrate Judge Steve Kim ordered ICE to show cause why an Armenian detainee at Adelanto should not receive an individualized bond hearing, following an ‘overwhelming majority’ of C.D. Cal. decisions rejecting the government’s position that arriving aliens are subject to mandatory
Judge David O. Carter granted a preliminary injunction requiring that any future immigration enforcement actions against Eugene Trifonov after his release comply with required procedures, incorporating the Winter analysis from his prior TRO order.
Judge Fernando Aenlle-Rocha dismissed with prejudice a § 1983 suit against a Los Angeles court reporter who allegedly delayed producing family-law transcripts, holding that plaintiff could not show actual prejudice because his underlying state-court cases were barred by the California litigation pri
Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett accepted a magistrate’s recommendation denying a § 2254 habeas petition, denying additional discovery under Bracy v. Gramley because the petitioner already possessed the only evidence he sought, and denying an evidentiary hearing because the alleged facts would not
Magistrate Judge Daniel S. Roberts ordered a pro se prisoner plaintiff to show cause why his § 1983 suit over a Kern Valley State Prison incident should not be transferred to the Eastern District of California, where the prison and all defendants are located.
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