Richard A. Paez

Senior Circuit Judge
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
CA Central - Pasadena

staff attorney, California Rural Legal Assistance, 1972-74. staff attorney, Western Center on Law and Poverty, 1974-76. Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, 1976-81; senior counsel, 1976-78; director of litigation, 1978-79; deputy director of litigation, 1979-80; acting executive director and director of litigation, 1980-81. Judge, Los Angeles Municipal Court, 1981-94. Nominated to 9th Circuit March 1994, confirmed June 1994

UC Berkeley Boalt Hall, 1972

Title	Court	Published
Richard A. Paez	9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Pasadena)	Jul. 30, 2013

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Richard A. Paez

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Pasadena)

Jul. 30, 2013

Case	Category	Published
Borja v. Nago dissenting	Civil Rights	Aug. 30, 2024
Civil Beat Law Center v. Maile author	Constitutional Law	Aug. 28, 2024
Salas v. U.S. concurring	Animal Law	Aug. 27, 2024
Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe affirmed	Native American Affairs	Jun. 6, 2024
Glanden v. Kijakazi author	Administrative Agencies	Nov. 16, 2023
Hanagami v. Epic Games, Inc. author	Copyright	Nov. 1, 2023
R.W. v. Columbia Basin College author	Civil Procedure	Aug. 14, 2023
Leeds v. Russell author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Jul. 26, 2023
Osure Brown v. Transworld Systems, Inc. et al author	Consumer Law	Jul. 14, 2023
Friedenberg v. Lane County author	Health Care	May 19, 2023
World Wide Voice LLC v. Federal Communications Commission author	Administrative Agencies	Mar. 9, 2023
Clarkson v. Alaska Airlines Inc. author	Employment Law	Feb. 1, 2023
San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Xavier Becerra, et al author	Native American Affairs	Nov. 21, 2022
Collier v. Lincoln Life Assurance Company of Boston author	Insurance	Nov. 21, 2022
Wright v. SEIU Local 503 author	Constitutional Law	Sep. 19, 2022
Ochoa v. Public Consulting Group author	Constitutional Law	Sep. 19, 2022
U.S. v. Ramirez-Ramirez author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Aug. 22, 2022
National Labor Relations Board v. Ampersand Publishing author	Labor Law	Aug. 11, 2022
Brach v. Newsom dissenting	Government	Jun. 15, 2022
Flores Molina v. Garland author	Immigration	Jun. 13, 2022
In re U.S. Department of Education petition granted	Civil Procedure	Feb. 7, 2022
U.S. v. Schlenker author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Feb. 2, 2022
Sanders v. Davis author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Jan. 14, 2022
D.D. v. Los Angeles Unified School District dissenting	Disability Discrimination	Nov. 22, 2021
Goulart v. Garland author	Immigration	Nov. 19, 2021
Cui v. Garland dissenting	Immigration	Sep. 24, 2021
U.S. v. Green dissenting	Criminal Law and Procedure	Sep. 9, 2021
Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid reversed and remanded	Eminent Domain	Jun. 24, 2021
U.S. v. Velazquez author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Jun. 24, 2021
Rodriguez Tornes v. Garland concurring	Immigration	Apr. 6, 2021
Amended Opinion: East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Biden author	Immigration	Mar. 25, 2021
Rice v. Morehouse author	Civil Rights	Mar. 9, 2021
Aden v. Wilkinson author	Immigration	Mar. 5, 2021
Bean v. Matteucci author	Prisoners' Rights	Jan. 21, 2021
Christian v. Umpqua Bank author	Employment Discrimination	Jan. 4, 2021
Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke author	Environmental Law	Dec. 8, 2020
Wright v. Beck author	Civil Rights	Dec. 2, 2020
Hardwick v. County of Orange author	Civil Rights	Nov. 19, 2020
Marino v. Ocwen Loan Servicing concurring	Consumer Law	Oct. 21, 2020
Cortes-Maldonado v. Barr author	Immigration	Oct. 16, 2020
Velasquez-Gaspar v. Barr dissenting	Immigration	Oct. 1, 2020
McIntyre v. Eugene School District 4J author	Disability Discrimination	Sep. 24, 2020
Amended Opinion: Guerra v. Barr author	Immigration	Sep. 14, 2020
Maxwell v. Saul author	Administrative Agencies	Aug. 25, 2020
Kipp v. Davis author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Aug. 20, 2020
In re Edwin Earl Elliott author	Bankruptcy	Aug. 13, 2020
Reynaga Hernandez v. Skinner author	Civil Rights	Aug. 11, 2020
Moore v. Mars Petcare US author	Consumer Law	Jul. 29, 2020
Bynoe v. Baca author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Jul. 27, 2020
Larson v. Saul author	Administrative Agencies	Jul. 22, 2020
Heineke v. Santa Clara University author	Constitutional Law	Jul. 21, 2020
Adams v. West Marine Products author	Civil Procedure	May 14, 2020
Galaza v. Wolf concurring	Civil Procedure	Apr. 9, 2020
Herrera v. Zumiez Inc. author	Employment Law	Mar. 20, 2020
Guerra v. Barr author	Immigration	Mar. 4, 2020
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump author	Immigration	Mar. 2, 2020
State of California v. Azar dissenting	Administrative Agencies	Feb. 25, 2020
Vazquez v. County of Kern author	Civil Rights	Feb. 3, 2020
In Re: Williams-Sonoma Inc. dissenting	Civil Procedure	Jan. 14, 2020
Cuviello v. City of Vallejo author	Constitutional Law	Dec. 11, 2019
Husayn v. U.S. author	Evidence	Sep. 19, 2019
U.S. v. Hong author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Sep. 13, 2019
Victory Processing v. Fox author	Constitutional Law	Sep. 11, 2019
Head v. Wilkie author	Civil Rights	Sep. 6, 2019
Ward v. United States author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Sep. 4, 2019
Senne v. Kansas City Royals Baseball author	Labor Law	Aug. 19, 2019
Amended Opinion: Claiborne v. Blauser author	Civil Rights	Aug. 15, 2019
Agua Caliente Tribe v. Sweeney author	Native American Affairs	Aug. 8, 2019
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1015 v. Spokane Transit Authority author	Constitutional Law	Jul. 3, 2019
Claiborne v. Blauser author	Civil Rights	Jul. 1, 2019
Skokomish Tribe v. Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe dissenting	Native American Affairs	Jun. 27, 2019
DaVinci Aircraft v. U.S. author	Torts	Jun. 13, 2019
U.S. v. Knotek author	International Law	Jun. 4, 2019
Cedar Point Nursery v. Shiroma author	Constitutional Law	May 9, 2019
Dieringer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue author	Tax	Mar. 13, 2019
Spreitz v. Ryan author	Constitutional Law	Mar. 5, 2019
Ma v. Sessions author	Immigration	Nov. 5, 2018
E.V. v. Robinson author	Immunity	Oct. 18, 2018
Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin author	Copyright	Oct. 1, 2018
Sanchez v. Sessions concurring	Immigration	Sep. 20, 2018
Marsh v. J. Alexander's author	Labor Law	Sep. 19, 2018
Hoard v. Hartman author	Constitutional Law	Sep. 14, 2018
M.S. v. Brown author	Civil Rights	Sep. 6, 2018
Quiroz Parada v. Sessions author	Immigration	Aug. 30, 2018
Barrera-Lima v. Sessions author	Immigration	Aug. 27, 2018
Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke author	Environmental Law	Aug. 20, 2018
Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Savage author	Environmental Law	Jul. 27, 2018
Segalman v. Southwest Airlines author	Disability Discrimination	Jul. 24, 2018
U.S. v. Barnes author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Jul. 20, 2018
Local Joint Executive Board v. National Labor Relations Board author	Labor Law	Feb. 28, 2018
Newton v. Parker Drilling Management Services vacated and remanded	Labor Law	Feb. 6, 2018
U.S. v. Espinoza author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Jan. 23, 2018
Yang v. Dongwon Industries Co. concurring	Arbitration	Dec. 1, 2017
United States of America v. Christopher Michael Johnson author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Nov. 3, 2017
Lambert v. Nutraceutical Corp. author	Civil Procedure	Sep. 18, 2017
Marsh v. J. Alexander's LLC dissenting	Labor Law	Sep. 7, 2017
Zazzali v. US (In re DBSI Inc.) author	Bankruptcy	Sep. 1, 2017
Yagman v. Pompeo author	Administrative Agencies	Aug. 29, 2017
DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral- Genossenschaft Bank v. Meyer author	Bankruptcy	Aug. 25, 2017
Clayton v. Biter author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Aug. 22, 2017
U.S. V. Jesus Castillo-Mendez author	Criminal Law and Procedure	Aug. 22, 2017

Case

Case Name	Topic	Role	Published
T.H.E. Insurance Co. v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co., Union Pacific Railroad Co., et al.	Insurance	judge	May 27, 2000
Confidential v. American Drug Stores, Inc., et al.	Employment Law	judge	May 6, 2000
Malik D. Freeman and Jeanette Freeman v. City of Colton	Employment Law	judge	Oct. 23, 1999
Confidential	Civil Rights	judge	Jul. 10, 1999
Confidential	Employment Law	judge	Aug. 8, 1998
Confidential	Personal Injury	judge	Apr. 18, 1998
Derrick Simpson v. Rudolph Dennis; Ervin Spencer; Terry Rindall and Performers of the World, Inc.	Intellectual Property	judge	Apr. 18, 1998
Yousef Saman, et al. v. Daniel Robins, et al.	Civil Rights	judge	Feb. 22, 1997
Confidential	Employment Law	judge	Sep. 28, 1996
Sunbelt Automated Systems, Inc. v. Amrep	Intellectual Property	judge	Jul. 29, 1995
Thurman Paul v. Daryl Gates, et al.	Civil Rights	judge	May 6, 1995
Confidential	Civil Rights	judge	Feb. 25, 1995
Royce Dean Gibbons v. City of Santa Maria, Robert Ramos, Penny Truby and William Tripp	Civil Rights	judge	Nov. 12, 1994

Case Name	Topic	Role	Published
T.H.E. Insurance Co. v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co., Union Pacific Railroad Co., et al.	Insurance	judge	May 27, 2000
Confidential v. American Drug Stores, Inc., et al.	Employment Law	judge	May 6, 2000
Malik D. Freeman and Jeanette Freeman v. City of Colton	Employment Law	judge	Oct. 23, 1999
Confidential	Civil Rights	judge	Jul. 10, 1999
Confidential	Employment Law	judge	Aug. 8, 1998
Confidential	Personal Injury	judge	Apr. 18, 1998
Derrick Simpson v. Rudolph Dennis; Ervin Spencer; Terry Rindall and Performers of the World, Inc.	Intellectual Property	judge	Apr. 18, 1998
Yousef Saman, et al. v. Daniel Robins, et al.	Civil Rights	judge	Feb. 22, 1997
Confidential	Employment Law	judge	Sep. 28, 1996
Sunbelt Automated Systems, Inc. v. Amrep	Intellectual Property	judge	Jul. 29, 1995
Thurman Paul v. Daryl Gates, et al.	Civil Rights	judge	May 6, 1995
Confidential	Civil Rights	judge	Feb. 25, 1995
Royce Dean Gibbons v. City of Santa Maria, Robert Ramos, Penny Truby and William Tripp	Civil Rights	judge	Nov. 12, 1994

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