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.
Magistrate Judge Tse declines to tax costs against Vincent Bryant — an unhoused plaintiff now in a vegetative state after being shot in the face by Berkeley police — applying all five Ninth Circuit factors that justify departing from the Rule 54(d)(1) presumption favoring the prevailing party.
After holding an evidentiary hearing, the court denied a federal prisoner’s motion to vacate his sentence for ineffective assistance of counsel, ruling that even though his lawyer miscalculated the sentencing guidelines before trial, the petitioner could not show prejudice because he had alrea
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 Donato grants summary judgment for Alameda County and jail medical staff in a pretrial detainee’s § 1983 case alleging denial of pain medication (Gabapentin) and interference with legal mail, holding that providing Cymbalta and a documented treatment course met the objective deliberate-indiffe
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
Judge Breyer dismisses with prejudice a pro se plaintiff’s second-round constitutional suit attacking the NLRB’s denial of a 2021 labor grievance, holding that there is no waiver of sovereign immunity, no private right of action under the Tenth Amendment, and no Bivens remedy in this novel context.
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
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 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.
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 Pitts dismisses all twenty causes of action brought by a Marina dentist-turned-landlord who claimed the city escalated property-code enforcement against him after he filed Public Records Act requests, finding pleading deficiencies on Monell, First Amendment, equal protection, takings, excessiv
The court ordered the immediate release of a Honduran national who had been on an immigration Order of Supervision since 1999 and detained at his routine annual check-in without notice of revocation or the regulatory interview, ruling that ICE’s failure to follow its own procedures violated du
Eastern District of California grants preliminary injunction ordering immediate release of an asylum-seeker re-detained by ICE without a bond hearing, holding that the Due Process Clause required a pre-deprivation hearing.
Case Frank Dorsey and Ghassan Salah v. Attorney General of Canada Court Supreme Court of Canada (Canada) Judge Per Curiam
Case Canadian Council for Refugees, Amnesty International, Canadian Council of Churches et al. v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and