In the early morning, a wife observed her terminally ill husband, who was suffering from brain cancer, go to his truck, retrieve his gun and load it with ammunition. She called 911, but he told her to hang up and she did. Police nevertheless responded, and the wife explained the situation. The husband came into view […]
Arbitration For One Part Of An Action, But Not The Other.
In a class action against both DirecTV and Best Buy, plaintiffs allege a scheme to deceive, involving the apparent sale of equipment that was actually only leased to customers. The district court ordered the matter into arbitration. The Ninth Circuit found that DirecTV’s arbitration agreement is enforceable under the holding in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (2011) 131 […]
Police Dog Had A History Of Sniffing Mistakes.
While a victim sat in his car waiting for a traffic light to change, a young Hispanic man got out of a white Volkswagen and murdered him. A defendant was found guilty of first degree murder after a police dog named Reilly alerted to a scent showing the defendant’s scent was present on the front passenger […]
Ninth Circuit Reversed Grant Of Summary Judgment In Excessive Force Action Involving The Death Of An Attorney.
In response to a hang-up 911 call, police arrived at a home to find a delusional man, an attorney, sitting in the driveway. It took four officers to handcuff him. Even after being handcuffed, the man pumped his fists and kicked his feet and toes onto the asphalt. An officer kept his knee on the man’s […]
We Don’t Need No Stinking Commercials.
Fox Broadcasting Co. licenses its shows to companies which sell Fox programs online or stream them over the internet. One such distributor is Dish Network, the third largest pay television service provider in the U.S. Dish retransmits Fox’s broadcasts under a 2002 contract, which provides in part: “Dish shall not ‘distribute’ Fox programs on an ‘interactive, time-delayed, […]
Gay Man Will Be Persecuted If He Is Returned To His Native Country.
A 37-year-old gay native and citizen of the Philippines was ordered removed from this country. The Ninth Circuit granted the man’s petition for relief, stating: “Dennis Vitug, a native of the Philippines, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) order vacating an immigration judge’s (“U”) grant of withholding of removal and protection under […]
Spiderman Not Able To Combat His Foes.
Plaintiff invented a SpiderMan toy that allowed a user to mimic the superhero with foam string. Thereafter a rival produced a similar SpiderMan role-playing toy. Plaintiff sued the rival for patent infringement. The parties settled while the underlying action was pending, with the rival agreeing to purchase the patent. Their agreement had no expiration date, and […]
Enforcement Of Foreign Money Judgment Against A Church Is Not Repugnant To Free Exercise Clause Or Public Policy.
A church in Japan, which is a registered California religious corporation, as well as a man in Japan, who is a resident of Los Angeles, was sued by a Japanese woman in Japan after “they had tortuously induced her to transfer nearly all of her assets to the Church.” The Japanese courts awarded her a $1.2 […]
Clash Of Publicly-Funded Health Clinics With California’s Budget Woes.
In 2009, California passed Welfare and Institutions Code section 14131.10, as a cost-cutting measure. The statute eliminated certain Medi-Cal benefits that the state deemed optional, including adult dental, podiatry, optometry and chiropractic Health Clinic services, and discontinued reimbursement for those Health Clinic services. The Ninth Circuit stated: “We hold that Medicaid prohibits the limitations adopted by the California legislature.” California Association […]
Convicted Attorney Is “Actually Innocent.”
18 USC § 1346 states: “. . .the term ‘scheme or artifice to defraud’ includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.” An attorney and trustee of private trusts pled guilty to honest services fraud after being accused of abusing his fiduciary obligations and position of trust through ambiguous […]
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