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 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
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
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.
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
Judge Christina Snyder granted summary judgment for VMG Partners and other investors on a Defend Trade Secrets Act claim because plaintiff Vitamin Friends LLC could not show it owned the supplier trade secrets — its affiliate Better Nutritionals did. Repeat fraud, RICO, and breach-of-fiduciary-duty
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.