U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2014

The court held that the ALJ lacked adequate reasons to reject Burrell’s testimony and her treating physician’s assessment, and reversed the district court’s decision upholding the denial of benefits.

The Ninth Circuit held that the ALJ inadequately rejected Treichler’s symptom testimony because the ALJ gave only a boilerplate conclusion and did not identify the testimony rejected or explain why.

The court held that Wilkerson’s grievance sufficiently exhausted his excessive-force claim against Turner and that Heck did not require the jury instruction stating that Wilkerson resisted.

The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s judgment because substantial evidence did not support the ALJ’s rejection of Ghanim’s treating providers’ opinions or his adverse credibility determination, errors that undermined the residual functional capacity and past-work findings.

The Ninth Circuit held that Nordstrom plausibly alleged a Sixth Amendment violation by claiming prison officials read his confidential letter to counsel, asserted authority to read such mail, and thereby chilled private consultation with counsel.

The Ninth Circuit held that the ALJ improperly discounted Garrison’s treating and examining medical-source evidence and symptom testimony, and that the district court erred by remanding for further administrative proceedings.

In consolidated interlocutory appeals, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the denial of remand motions in asbestos failure-to-warn suits against Crane. It held that factual challenges to federal-officer removal jurisdiction are evaluated under the framework for factual challenges to subject-matter jurisdiction, and that Crane…

The en banc Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment in this prisoner § 1983 damages action, upholding a jury instruction that permitted the jury to consider the personnel, financial, and other resources available to a prison dentist in deciding whether he was deliberately indifferent to serious dental…

A Ninth Circuit panel denied Lydia Garcia-Milian's petition for review of the BIA's denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture relief, holding that substantial evidence supported the agency's determinations that she was not persecuted on account of an imputed political opinion and that…