In a personal-injury case alleging that a recalled bone allograft caused the plaintiff to test positive for tuberculosis, the court denied remand to state court, ruling that the LLC defendant the plaintiff identified as a California citizen was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of a Japanese corpor
Eastern District of California dismisses Sutter Davis Hospital’s crossclaim for indemnity and contribution against the United States, holding that the century-old derivative jurisdiction doctrine bars federal jurisdiction over a state-court crossclaim that the federal government later removed.
A magistrate judge in the Eastern District of California recommends granting in part a habeas corpus petition for a Mexican national detained at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center, holding that someone who has lived in the United States for over 20 years and was apprehended in the interior is not
Eastern District of California recommends remanding a partial denial of Social Security disability benefits because the vocational expert’s testimony failed to adequately resolve an apparent conflict between the claimant’s limitation to simple, repetitive tasks and the Dictionary of Occu
Eastern District of California allows a civil detainee at DSH-Coalinga to proceed on his Fourteenth Amendment claim that the conditions of his confinement as a sexually violent predator are no less restrictive than those of prison inmates, while dismissing his challenge to the SVP treatment program
The court compelled arbitration of a former CVS employee’s discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage claims, ruling that CVS met its burden of authenticating her electronic signature on a 2017 arbitration agreement and that her bare assertion that her supervisor logged in and signed fo
Judge Lin reverses and remands the Social Security Administration’s denial of disability adult child insurance benefits and SSI to plaintiff Chasity T., holding that the Administrative Law Judge’s decision was not supported by substantial evidence in the record.
Judge Illston denies the Steinberg defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings in Clear View West’s eleven-count action over their alleged scheme — while serving as CVW’s Director of Sales — to launch a competing APOLLO retractable-screen brand using CVW’s trade secrets and to redirect CVW dist
Magistrate Judge DeMarchi denies remand of a putative class action by Nixplay digital-photo-frame customers, holding that complete diversity exists between the plaintiffs and Nixplay, Inc. (Delaware/U.K.) and Creedon Technologies USA, LLC (Hong Kong via its sole member), even though defendants’ init
Judge White certifies for Ninth Circuit interlocutory appeal two questions arising from his earlier denial of Meta’s motion to dismiss in a putative class action alleging Facebook failed to combat scam advertisements: whether Meta’s Terms of Service and Community Standards impose an affirmative anti