Published opinions from 1989. The case name opens the case page.
December 7, 1989891 F.2d 240
The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for Arizona prison officials against a pro se state prisoner who alleged Eighth Amendment violations based on deliberate indifference to his recurring perirectal abscesses and boils.
September 19, 1989885 F.2d 642
The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for Pocatello City Prosecutor Nancy Ferris, who possessed absolute immunity for charging Hansen and requesting dismissal of the charges, and for Police Chief Norman Probst, who could not be held vicariously liable absent personal involvement or a causal connection to the…
September 18, 1989885 F.2d 639
The court held that an in forma pauperis complaint may be dismissed before service under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d) only if it is frivolous, meaning it lacks an arguable basis in law or fact.
September 13, 1989885 F.2d 597
The court affirmed summary judgment for the Secretary, concluding that substantial evidence supported the agency’s finding that Fair had not proved his condition worsened enough to prevent him from returning to his prior work.
August 4, 1989881 F.2d 747
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the Secretary’s determination that Magallanes became disabled on September 19, 1985, rather than in 1983. It concluded that substantial evidence supported the ALJ’s evaluation of the treating physicians’ opinions, Magallanes’s pain testimony, and the vocational expert’s testimony.
The Ninth Circuit partially reversed a district court's summary judgment dismissing a Nevada prisoner's pro se section 1983 claim that state officials sabotaged his self-represented murder trial.
July 3, 1989879 F.2d 498
The Ninth Circuit vacated the district court's summary judgment sustaining the denial of SSI and disability benefits to Elizabeth Hammock because the ALJ committed legal error: he rejected her treating physician's opinion and her objectively supported pain testimony without articulating specific reasons, and he failed…