U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1994

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel's affirmance of the bankruptcy court's dismissal of trustee Richard Moneymaker's three adversary proceedings for failure to prosecute under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b).

The court affirmed summary judgment and dismissal on Barnett’s reclassification, retaliation, property-deprivation, and general contact-visitation claims. It reversed summary judgment on his access-to-the-courts claim because prison officials had not shown that the restrictions on contact visits with counsel were…

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the FAA's temporary suspension and subsequent nonrenewal of Ashley Greenwood's fourteen-year designation as a pilot examiner. The court held it lacked jurisdiction to review the merits of the agency's discretionary action, and that Greenwood's due process claim failed because the brief…

The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of Branch’s Fourth Amendment claim because the amended complaint did not allege facts tending to show that Tunnell knew or recklessly disregarded the falsity of statements in his warrant affidavit, as the circuit’s heightened pleading rule required.