• Guggenheim v. City of Goleta

    Publication Date: 2010-12-22
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    Date Filed: 2010-12-22
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Florence-Marie Cooper, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted June 22, 2010—Pasadena, California Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Alfred T. Goodwin, Stephen Reinhardt, Pamela Ann Rymer, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Ronald M. Gould, Richard R. Clifton, Consuelo M. Callahan, Carlos T. Bea, Sandra S. Ikuta, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. Coldren, Hart, King & Coldren, Santa Ana, California, for the appellants.
    for defendant: Andrew W. Schwartz (argued), Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, LLP, San Francisco, California, and Amy E. Morgan (briefed), Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellees. David J. Bradford (briefed), Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for amicus curiae Equity Lifestyle Properties. Michael M. Berger (briefed), Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for amicus curiae Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. Gordon C. Atkinson (briefed), Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League. John J. McDermott (briefed), Arlington, Virginia, for amici curiae National Apartment Association, National Multi Housing Council, Apartment Association of California Southern Cities, Inc., and the Apartment Association of Orange County. Grant Habata (briefed), California Association of Realtors, Los Angeles, California, for amicus curiae California Association of Realtors. R. S. Radford (briefed), Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, for amici curiae Pacific Legal Foundation and Manufactured Housing Institute. Amy E. Margolin (briefed), Bien & Summers, Novato, California, for amicus curiae Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association. Karen K. McCay, Sonia S. Shah, Anthony J. Adair, and Stepanie M. Vaughan, (briefed), Pahl & McCay, San Jose, California, for amicus curiae California Apartment Association. Meaghan McLaine VerGow (briefed), O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Manufactured Housing Educational Trust, Goldstein Properties, Inc., and Morgan Partners, Inc. Michael von Loewenfeldt (briefed), Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, San Francisco, California, and Jeff M. Malawy (briefed), Aleshire & Wynder, LLP, Irvine, California, for amici curiae League of California Cities, and California State Association of Counties. Terry R. Dowdall (briefed), Dowdall Law Offices, Orange, California, for amicus curiae California Mobilehome Parkowners Alliance. Elizabeth B. Wydra (briefed), Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae American Planning Association, APA California, Constitutional Accountability Center, and Western Center on Law and Poverty. Meliah Schultzman (briefed), National Housing Law Project, Oakland, California, for amici curiae AARP, California Coalition for Rural Housing, Housing California, Legal Services of Northern California, Non-Profit Housing, Association of Northern California, R. Keith Traphagen, and Tenants Together.

    Case Number: No. 06-56306

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 15843DANIEL GUGGENHEIM; SUSAN GUGGENHEIM; MAUREEN H. PIERCE, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY

  • Stone v. Thaler

    Publication Date: 2010-08-09
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    Date Filed: 2010-08-05
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Jerry E. Smith, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: Nos. 08-11010 & 09-40028

    Published opinionBefore SMITH, WIENER, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.Thomas Stone, Texas prisoner #671904, appeals the dismissals, as time-barred, of his federal petitions for writs of habeas corpus

  • In re Ford Motor Co.

    Publication Date: 2009-12-21
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    Date Filed: 2009-12-16
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: 09-50109

    Published OpinionON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC(Opinion 580 F.3d 308 (Aug. 21, 2009))Before SMITH, STEWART, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.Treating the petition for rehearing en banc as

  • In re Moore

    Publication Date: 2010-06-04
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    Date Filed: 2010-06-02
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Jerry E. Smith, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 09-10604

    Published opinionBefore SMITH, CLEMENT, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.Appellant The Cadle Company ("Cadle"), the major creditor of the bankruptcy estate of James H. Moore, III ("Moore"), appeals the

  • In re Ford Motor Co.

    Publication Date: 2009-08-25
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    Date Filed: 2009-08-21
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Jerry E. Smith, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 09-50109

    Before SMITH, STEWART, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.Ford Motor Company ("Ford") and Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire LLC ("Firestone") requested that the district court reconsider a pretr

  • Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Pella Corporation; Pella Windows and Doors, Inc

    Publication Date: 2011-08-16
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    Date Filed: 2011-08-18
    Court: 8th Cir.
    Judge: Smith, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 10-1933, 10-2065

    Submitted: February 15, 2011Before SMITH, GRUENDER, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.Liberty Mutual Insurance Company ("Liberty Mutual") sued Pella Corporation and Pella Windows and Doors, Inc. (colle

  • Blaisdell v. Frappiea

    Publication Date: 2013-09-10
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    Date Filed: 2013-09-10
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dawn Sestito, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued the cause and filed the briefs for the plaintiff-appellant. Mica Doctoroff, UCLA School of Law Ninth Circuit Clinic, Los Angeles, CA, also argued the cause for the plaintiff-appellant. With them on the briefs was Katharine S. Mercer, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA.
    for defendant: Nicholas D. Acedo, Struck Wieneke & Love, P.L.C., Chandler, Arizona, argued the cause and filed a supplemental brief for the defendant-appellee. With him on the brief was Daniel P. Struck, Struck Wieneke & Love, P.L.C, Chandler, Arizona. Jaleh Najafi, Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C, Phoenix, Arizona, filed the original brief for the defendant­appellant. With him on the brief were Eileen Dennis GilBride, Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C., Phoenix, Arizona, and Daniel P. Struck, Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C., Phoenix, Arizona.

    Case Number: No. 10-16845

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 10066 RIC

  • Sandoval-Luna v. Mukasey

    Publication Date: 2008-05-22
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    Date Filed: 2008-05-22
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alma Rose Nieto, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner.
    for defendant: Joshua E. Braunstein, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

    Case Number: 04-74825

    Cite as 08 C.D.O.S. 6181DANIEL SANDOVAL-LUNA, Petitioner,v.MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.No. 04-74825United States Court of Appeal for the Nint

  • Givens v. Cockrell

    Publication Date: 2001-09-10
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    Date Filed: 2001-09-06
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Jerry E. Smith, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 00-40532

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of TexasTracy Givens appeals the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. Finding no error, we affirm.I.In 1992

  • San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. United States

    Publication Date: 2012-03-02
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    Date Filed: 2012-03-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Oliver W. Wanger, United States District Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and George H. Wu, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Birmingham, Fresno, California; and Daniel J. O?Hanlon and Andrew P. Tauriainen, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Cynthia L. Koehler, Environmental Defense Fund, San Francisco, California; and Paul A. Peters, Hines & Thomas, San Francisco, California; and Katherine S. Poole and Jason Malinsky, Natural Resources Defense Counsel, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.
    for defendant: Kevin Tanaka, Department of the Interior, Office of Regional Solicitor, Sacramento, California; and Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, and Charles Shockley, Andrew C. Mer gen and David S. Shelton, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.

    Case Number: No. 09-17594

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 2570 SAN LUIS & DELTA-MENDOTA WATER AUTHORITY; WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and p