The court kept an insurance dispute in federal court after realigning the parties and finding bad faith that triggered an exception to the one-year removal limit.
The court reversed a disability-benefits denial because the agency inadequately discounted the claimant’s symptom testimony and the error affected the functional analysis.
A default judgment permanently barred a nonappearing defendant from using the PETER MILLAR mark and required surrender of infringing materials.
The court invalidated a rideshare identification patent as an abstract method of organizing human activity and dismissed infringement claims against Uber and Waymo with prejudice.
A federal court kept a Song-Beverley warranty action because claimed actual damages and a possible double-damages civil penalty pushed the amount in controversy above $75,000.
The Ninth Circuit held that officers did not violate clearly established law by pointing firearms during a felony arrest and granted qualified immunity.
The Southern District upheld a disability denial because the agency reasonably assessed moderate mental limitations and gave adequate reasons for discounting migraine testimony.
The Southern District of California affirmed a bankruptcy court’s decision to lift the automatic stay and let a lender proceed with foreclosure, rejecting a Chapter 13 debtor’s challenge to the lender’s standing.
The Southern District of California compelled individual arbitration of a putative class action over preimplantation genetic testing, holding that a broad delegation clause sent even the plaintiffs’ unconscionability and scope arguments to the arbitrator.
The Northern District of California granted summary judgment to correctional officers on a prisoner’s excessive-force claim after body-worn camera footage contradicted his account, and held the officers would be entitled to qualified immunity regardless.
The Northern District of California denied qualified immunity to a prison librarian accused of denying an inmate photocopies and banning her from the law library in retaliation for threatening to file a grievance and lawsuit.
A federal judge let female pretrial detainees at a San Francisco jail proceed with claims that total deprivation of direct sunlight and gender-based facility disparities violate the Constitution, while dismissing most of their other conditions-of-confinement claims.
The Southern District of California ordered the immediate release of an immigration detainee and barred his redetention unless the government first affords him an individualized bond hearing where it bears the burden of proving danger or flight risk by clear and convincing evidence.
A federal judge let a California camper’s design-defect lawsuit over a finger injury from an Igloo cooler’s handle proceed, finding a prior safety recall over identical fingertip-pinching injuries plausibly supported both the defect and causation elements.
The Northern District of California certified a class of Lucid Group investors in a securities fraud suit, holding the company failed to rebut the presumption that its optimistic production statements inflated the stock price, and rejecting arguments that an index-tracking lead plaintiff was an atyp
The Northern District of California granted an emergency restraining order freeing a man from ICE custody hours after a warrantless roadside arrest, finding he was likely to succeed on his due-process claim because he was neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community.
The Northern District of California dismissed, with leave to amend, a policyholder’s breach of contract and bad-faith claims against GEICO because he never identified a specific policy obligation the insurer failed to perform or a contractual benefit he was denied.
The Northern District of California granted summary judgment to Pelican Bay State Prison officials who placed an inmate on contraband surveillance watch, finding even his own account of the conditions did not rise to the level of an Eighth Amendment violation.
The Northern District of California dismissed a disability applicant’s constitutional, discrimination, and conspiracy claims against the Social Security Administration, holding that Section 405(h) channels virtually any claim tied to a benefits denial exclusively through the Social Security Ac
A federal judge largely rejected Rakuten’s attempt to dismiss a class action by online influencers and affiliate marketers who say the Rakuten Rewards browser extension secretly overwrote their referral-tracking cookies to redirect sales commissions to Rakuten.
The Northern District of California denied Ouraring’s motion to compel arbitration against its former CEO, finding the company could not prove he ever assented to a separate dispute resolution agreement it never produced in signed form.
A Northern District court dismissed repleaded wage claims with prejudice after repeated missed deadlines made a late amendment more than an isolated calendaring error.
A Montana social-media injury class action stays in federal MDL proceedings because related verdicts and the proposed class made CAFA’s amount in controversy plausible.
Politico users plausibly alleged privacy injuries from ignored cookie opt-outs, but their CIPA claims failed under the statute’s one-year deadline.