Published opinions from 2016. The case name opens the case page.
August 15, 2016833 F.3d 1060
The en banc court affirmed the jury’s judgment for a pretrial detainee who was seriously injured by a fellow detainee, holding that an objectively unreasonable failure to protect can violate a pretrial detainee’s Fourteenth Amendment rights and that the evidence supported liability for both the individual officers and…
August 9, 2016832 F.3d 1024
This consolidated Ninth Circuit opinion resolves Labor Management Relations Act § 301 preemption for three union-represented employees pursuing Oregon wage-related claims against their employers. Sue Kobold's premium-pay claims under Or. Rev. Stat.
The en banc court held that a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action is the exclusive vehicle for state-prisoner claims falling outside the “core of habeas corpus,” overruling Docken v. Chase and Bostic v.
January 11, 2016809 F.3d 1092
The Ninth Circuit held that the standard for sealing documents filed with a motion depends on whether the motion is more than tangentially related to the merits, not simply on whether it is technically dispositive.