• Browning v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2017-09-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-09-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Robert Clive Jones, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Ronald M. Gould, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy K. Ford (argued), MacDonald Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, Washington; Mark A. Larrañaga and Jacqueline K. Walsh, Walsh & Larrañaga, Seattle, Washington; for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Victor-Hugo Schulze II (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General; Thom Gover, Chief Deputy Attorney General; Adam Paul Laxalt, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Respondents-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 15-99002

    Defense counsel's inadequate pretrial investigation and prosecutor's withholding of exculpatory evidence warranted habeas relief for death row inmate (Gould, J.)

  • International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. U.S. Department of Transportation

    Publication Date: 2017-06-30
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Legislation | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-06-29
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Ronald M. Gould, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Brown (argued), Barbara J. Chisholm, and Jonathan Weissglass, Altshuler Berzon LLP San Francisco, California; Henry Jasny, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Washington, D.C.; for Petitioners.
    for defendant: Dana Kaersvang (argued) and Michael S. Raab, Attorneys, Appellate Staff; Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Peter J. Plocki, Deputy Assistant General Counsel; Paul M. Geier, Assistant General Counsel; Molly J. Moran, Acting General Counsel; Office of the General Counsel, Office of Litigation and Enforcement, United States Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C.; Charles J. Fromm, Acting Chief Counsel, and Debra S. Straus, Office of Chief Counsel, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.; for Respondents.

    Case Number: Nos. 15-70754, 16-71137, 16-71992

    Department of Transportation findings that Mexico-based motor carriers could operate safely in U.S. exempt from judicial review (Wardlaw, J.)

  • Davies v. Benov

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Michael J. Seng, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Ronald M. Gould, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cody Harris (argued), Philip J. Tassin, Steven P. Ragland, and Elliot R. Peters, Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory T. Broderick (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Camil A. Skipper, Appellate Chief; Phillip A. Talbert, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Sacramento, California; for Respondent-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-17256

    Waiver provision in plea agreement precluded collateral attack on sentence (Gould, J.)