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Lucy H. Koh

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Circuit Judge
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
CA Northern - San Francisco





Nominated to the 9th Circuit by President Joseph Biden, September 2021 and confirmed December 2021, previously nominated by President Barack Obama, February 2016; nominated to the Northern District of California by President Barack Obama, 2010, where she served until 2022; a former federal prosecutor, Koh is best known for presiding over the patent infringement trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The companies settled in 2018 after seven years of litigation.



Judicial Profiles
Title Court Published
Lucy H. Koh Northern District of California (San Jose) Dec. 3, 2014

Rulings
Case Category Published
Salas v. U.S.
author
 Animal Law Aug. 27, 2024
U.S. v. Hughes
author
 Banking Aug. 21, 2024
Marks v. Davis
vacated in whole or part
 Criminal Law and Procedure Jul. 9, 2024
Sidibe v. Sutter Health
author
 Antitrust Jun. 4, 2024
Diamond S.J. Enterprise, Inc., DBA S. J. Live v. City of San Jose
affirmed
 Constitutional Law Apr. 30, 2024
Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of San Francisco
author
 Constitutional Law Jan. 11, 2024
Reyes-Corado v. Garland
author
 Immigration Aug. 11, 2023
Koonwaiyou v. Blinken
author
 Immigration Jun. 7, 2023
Armstrong v. Michaels Stores Inc.
affirmed
 Arbitration Feb. 13, 2023
U.S. v. Barai
author
 Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 20, 2022
U.S. v. Wells
vacated and remanded
 Criminal Law and Procedure Mar. 23, 2022
Stromberg v. Qualcomm
vacated and remanded
 Antitrust Sep. 30, 2021
Ervin v. Davis
vacated and remanded
 Criminal Law and Procedure Sep. 13, 2021
Magadia v. Wal-Mart Associates
reversed and remanded
 Labor Law Jun. 1, 2021
Rustico v. Intuitive Surgical
affirmed
 Civil Procedure Apr. 7, 2021
Hotop v. City of San Jose
affirmed
 Civil Rights Dec. 8, 2020
Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm Inc.
reversed
 Antitrust Aug. 12, 2020
Heineke v. Santa Clara University
affirmed
 Constitutional Law Jul. 21, 2020
Prager University v. Google
affirmed
 Constitutional Law Feb. 27, 2020
American Diabetes Ass'n v. U.S. Dept. of Army
affirmed
 Civil Procedure Sep. 19, 2019
U.S. v. Shayota
affirmed
 Criminal Law and Procedure Aug. 20, 2019
Nguyen v. Nissan North America
reversed and remanded
 Consumer Law Jul. 29, 2019
Northstar Financial v. Schwab Investments
affirmed
 Securities Sep. 17, 2018
Hernandez v. City of San Jose
affirmed
 Civil Rights Jul. 30, 2018
Smith v. City of Santa Clara
affirmed
 Constitutional Law Dec. 1, 2017
Nationwide Biweekly Administration Inc. v. Owen
reversed and remanded
 Civil Rights Oct. 11, 2017

Verdicts & Settlements
Case Name Topic Role Published
State of California, by and through Attorney General Xavier Becerra, City of Los Angeles, City of Long Beach, City of Oakland, Los Angeles Unified School District v. Donald J. Trump, in his official capacity as President of the United States, Wilbur L. Ross Jr., in his official capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce; U.S. Department of Commerce; Steven Dillingham, in his official capacity as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau; U.S. Census Bureau; Does 1-100 Constitutional Law judge May 20, 2022
Roger A. Ikeda, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Baidu Inc., Yanhong Li, Cheng-Chun Yu Securities judge Feb. 4, 2022
SEB Investment Management AB, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Align Technology Inc., Joseph M. Hogan, John F. Morici Securities judge Dec. 30, 2021
Omar Gomez v. Jordan Fachko Civil Rights judge Dec. 23, 2021
Stephen Hadley, Melody DiGregorio, Eric Fishon, Kerry Austin, and Nafeesha Madyun, on behalf of themselves, all others similarly situated, and the general public v. Kellogg Sales Company Consumer Law judge Oct. 1, 2021
Twitter Inc. v. VoIP-Pal.com Inc. Intellectual Property judge Sep. 24, 2021
In re: Zoom Video Communications Inc. Privacy Litigation Consumer Law judge Aug. 13, 2021
Rafael Arroyo v. IA Lodging Santa Clara, L.L.C Civil Rights judge Jul. 30, 2021
Snapkeys Ltd. v. Google LLC Contracts judge Jun. 11, 2021
Morgan McShan, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Hotel Valencia Corporation, and Does 1 through 100, inclusive Employment Law judge May 7, 2021
Paula Perez, on behalf of herself and all similarly situated employees v. Comex Food Service Inc.; Comex KC LLC; The Kickin' Crab; K.C. of Buena Park Inc.; K.C. of Chino Hills Inc.; KC of Costa Mesa Inc.; K.C. of Hollywood Inc.; KC of Irvine Inc.; K.C. of Baldwin Hills Inc.; KC of River-More; K.C. of Rowland Heights; KC of Carrollton Inc.; Jan Nguyen; Andrew Truong, and Does 1-10 Labor Law judge May 7, 2021
Roberta Ronique Bell v. Warden FCI Dublin Civil Rights judge Mar. 19, 2021
Kamaldeep K. Rider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Consumer Law judge Feb. 26, 2021
Paul Lesevic, an individual, on behalf of himself and on behalf of all persons similarly situated v. Spectraforce Technologies Inc., and Does 1 through 50, inclusive Employment Law judge Dec. 31, 2020
Morgan McShan, on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated v. Hotel Valencia Corporation and Does 1-100, inclusive Employment Law judge Dec. 31, 2020
David Kipling, et al. v. Flex Ltd., et al. Securities judge Dec. 31, 2020
Christina Grace and Ken Potter individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Apple Inc. Consumer Law judge Nov. 20, 2020
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Air Systems Inc. Employment Law judge Oct. 2, 2020
Diamond S.J. Enterprise Inc. v. City of San Jose Civil Rights judge Sep. 18, 2020
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Guidewire Software, Inc. Employment Law judge Sep. 4, 2020
Jay Brodsky, et al. v. Apple Inc. Torts judge Jul. 10, 2020
Abdul Nevarez and Priscilla Nevarez, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, and Sebastian Defrancesco v. Forty Niners Football Company LLC, Forty Niners SC Stadium Company LLC, National Football League, City of Santa Clara, Santa Clara Stadium Authority, Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., and Does 1-10, inclusive Civil Rights judge Jun. 19, 2020
Benjamin Wise v. Maximus Federal Services Inc., United HealthCare Services Inc., United Health Care Insurance Company, MVI Administrators Insurance Solutions Inc. Labor Law judge May 8, 2020
Federal Agency of News LLC, Evgeniy Lvovich Zubarev v. Facebook Inc. Civil Rights judge Apr. 3, 2020
Wayne W. Yetter v. Ford Motor Company Consumer Law judge Mar. 13, 2020
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. JCFB Inc. Employment Law judge Feb. 14, 2020
Edward R. Monfort v. Adomani, James L. Reynolds, Michael K. Menery, Robert E. Williams, Kevin G. Ganning, Dennis Di Ricco Contracts judge Feb. 14, 2020
VOIP-PAL.com, Inc. v. Apple Inc. Intellectual Property judge Dec. 13, 2019
Tony Nunez, individually and as a successor-in-interest to Decedent Anthony Nunez and the Estate of Anthony Nunez by and through personal representative Sandy Sanchez v. City of San Jose, Michael Santos, individually and in his capacity as an officer for the San Jose Police Department and Anthony Vizzusi, individually and in his capacity as an officer for the San Jose Police Department Civil Rights judge Nov. 8, 2019
Fred Sahadi v. Liberty Mutual Insurance, Liberty Mutual Company, Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company Insurance judge Oct. 25, 2019
Uniloc USA Inc. v. LG Electronics USA Inc., et al. Intellectual Property judge Oct. 4, 2019
Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm Inc. Antitrust judge Jul. 5, 2019
Patricia Harrell v. City of Gilroy, et al. Employment Law judge Jun. 28, 2019
Elinel Rabara v. Heartland Employment Services LLC Employment Law judge Jun. 14, 2019
Orcinus Holdings LLC v. Synchronoss Technologies Inc. Intellectual Property judge Jun. 7, 2019
Diana Hauck, et al. v. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Torts judge May 17, 2019
Voip-Pal.com Inc. v. Apple Inc. Intellectual Property judge Apr. 26, 2019
United States of America, ex rel. Carl Krawitt, an individual v. Infosys Technologies Limited, Incorporated, Apple Incorporated Immigration judge Apr. 19, 2019
Nayereh Madani v. County of Santa Clara Employment Law judge Mar. 29, 2019
Jacob McGovney, et al. v. Aerohive Networks Inc., et al. Securities judge Mar. 22, 2019
Rodrigo Raquedan, et al. v. Centerplate of Delaware Inc., et al. Employment Law judge Mar. 22, 2019
Dinh V. Le v. Nancy A. Berryhill Government judge Mar. 15, 2019
Ken Arredondo v. Nancy A. Berryhill Government judge Mar. 15, 2019
Michael Kenneth Hadden v. A. Adams, D. Bright, L. Gamboa, K. Kumar, L. D. Zamora, G. Ellis, M. Daniel, E. Sullivan, M. Sepulveda Civil Rights judge Feb. 1, 2019
Maria W. Lee, Wen T. Lee v. Retail Store Employee Building Corporation, Casa Del Pueblo Apartment, Barcelon Associates Management Corp. Civil Rights judge Feb. 2, 2018
Daniel Matera v. Google Inc. Torts judge Sep. 29, 2017
Title Court Published
Lucy H. Koh Northern District of California (San Jose) Dec. 3, 2014
Case Category Published
Salas v. U.S.
author
 Animal Law Aug. 27, 2024
U.S. v. Hughes
author
 Banking Aug. 21, 2024
Marks v. Davis
vacated in whole or part
 Criminal Law and Procedure Jul. 9, 2024
Sidibe v. Sutter Health
author
 Antitrust Jun. 4, 2024
Diamond S.J. Enterprise, Inc., DBA S. J. Live v. City of San Jose
affirmed
 Constitutional Law Apr. 30, 2024
Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of San Francisco
author
 Constitutional Law Jan. 11, 2024
Reyes-Corado v. Garland
author
 Immigration Aug. 11, 2023
Koonwaiyou v. Blinken
author
 Immigration Jun. 7, 2023
Armstrong v. Michaels Stores Inc.
affirmed
 Arbitration Feb. 13, 2023
U.S. v. Barai
author
 Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 20, 2022
U.S. v. Wells
vacated and remanded
 Criminal Law and Procedure Mar. 23, 2022
Stromberg v. Qualcomm
vacated and remanded
 Antitrust Sep. 30, 2021
Ervin v. Davis
vacated and remanded
 Criminal Law and Procedure Sep. 13, 2021
Magadia v. Wal-Mart Associates
reversed and remanded
 Labor Law Jun. 1, 2021
Rustico v. Intuitive Surgical
affirmed
 Civil Procedure Apr. 7, 2021
Hotop v. City of San Jose
affirmed
 Civil Rights Dec. 8, 2020
Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm Inc.
reversed
 Antitrust Aug. 12, 2020
Heineke v. Santa Clara University
affirmed
 Constitutional Law Jul. 21, 2020
Prager University v. Google
affirmed
 Constitutional Law Feb. 27, 2020
American Diabetes Ass'n v. U.S. Dept. of Army
affirmed
 Civil Procedure Sep. 19, 2019
U.S. v. Shayota
affirmed
 Criminal Law and Procedure Aug. 20, 2019
Nguyen v. Nissan North America
reversed and remanded
 Consumer Law Jul. 29, 2019
Northstar Financial v. Schwab Investments
affirmed
 Securities Sep. 17, 2018
Hernandez v. City of San Jose
affirmed
 Civil Rights Jul. 30, 2018
Smith v. City of Santa Clara
affirmed
 Constitutional Law Dec. 1, 2017
Nationwide Biweekly Administration Inc. v. Owen
reversed and remanded
 Civil Rights Oct. 11, 2017
Case Name Topic Role Published
State of California, by and through Attorney General Xavier Becerra, City of Los Angeles, City of Long Beach, City of Oakland, Los Angeles Unified School District v. Donald J. Trump, in his official capacity as President of the United States, Wilbur L. Ross Jr., in his official capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce; U.S. Department of Commerce; Steven Dillingham, in his official capacity as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau; U.S. Census Bureau; Does 1-100 Constitutional Law judge May 20, 2022
Roger A. Ikeda, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Baidu Inc., Yanhong Li, Cheng-Chun Yu Securities judge Feb. 4, 2022
SEB Investment Management AB, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Align Technology Inc., Joseph M. Hogan, John F. Morici Securities judge Dec. 30, 2021
Omar Gomez v. Jordan Fachko Civil Rights judge Dec. 23, 2021
Stephen Hadley, Melody DiGregorio, Eric Fishon, Kerry Austin, and Nafeesha Madyun, on behalf of themselves, all others similarly situated, and the general public v. Kellogg Sales Company Consumer Law judge Oct. 1, 2021
Twitter Inc. v. VoIP-Pal.com Inc. Intellectual Property judge Sep. 24, 2021
In re: Zoom Video Communications Inc. Privacy Litigation Consumer Law judge Aug. 13, 2021
Rafael Arroyo v. IA Lodging Santa Clara, L.L.C Civil Rights judge Jul. 30, 2021
Snapkeys Ltd. v. Google LLC Contracts judge Jun. 11, 2021
Morgan McShan, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Hotel Valencia Corporation, and Does 1 through 100, inclusive Employment Law judge May 7, 2021
Paula Perez, on behalf of herself and all similarly situated employees v. Comex Food Service Inc.; Comex KC LLC; The Kickin' Crab; K.C. of Buena Park Inc.; K.C. of Chino Hills Inc.; KC of Costa Mesa Inc.; K.C. of Hollywood Inc.; KC of Irvine Inc.; K.C. of Baldwin Hills Inc.; KC of River-More; K.C. of Rowland Heights; KC of Carrollton Inc.; Jan Nguyen; Andrew Truong, and Does 1-10 Labor Law judge May 7, 2021
Roberta Ronique Bell v. Warden FCI Dublin Civil Rights judge Mar. 19, 2021
Kamaldeep K. Rider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Consumer Law judge Feb. 26, 2021
Paul Lesevic, an individual, on behalf of himself and on behalf of all persons similarly situated v. Spectraforce Technologies Inc., and Does 1 through 50, inclusive Employment Law judge Dec. 31, 2020
Morgan McShan, on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated v. Hotel Valencia Corporation and Does 1-100, inclusive Employment Law judge Dec. 31, 2020
David Kipling, et al. v. Flex Ltd., et al. Securities judge Dec. 31, 2020
Christina Grace and Ken Potter individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Apple Inc. Consumer Law judge Nov. 20, 2020
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Air Systems Inc. Employment Law judge Oct. 2, 2020
Diamond S.J. Enterprise Inc. v. City of San Jose Civil Rights judge Sep. 18, 2020
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Guidewire Software, Inc. Employment Law judge Sep. 4, 2020
Jay Brodsky, et al. v. Apple Inc. Torts judge Jul. 10, 2020
Abdul Nevarez and Priscilla Nevarez, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, and Sebastian Defrancesco v. Forty Niners Football Company LLC, Forty Niners SC Stadium Company LLC, National Football League, City of Santa Clara, Santa Clara Stadium Authority, Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., and Does 1-10, inclusive Civil Rights judge Jun. 19, 2020
Benjamin Wise v. Maximus Federal Services Inc., United HealthCare Services Inc., United Health Care Insurance Company, MVI Administrators Insurance Solutions Inc. Labor Law judge May 8, 2020
Federal Agency of News LLC, Evgeniy Lvovich Zubarev v. Facebook Inc. Civil Rights judge Apr. 3, 2020
Wayne W. Yetter v. Ford Motor Company Consumer Law judge Mar. 13, 2020
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. JCFB Inc. Employment Law judge Feb. 14, 2020
Edward R. Monfort v. Adomani, James L. Reynolds, Michael K. Menery, Robert E. Williams, Kevin G. Ganning, Dennis Di Ricco Contracts judge Feb. 14, 2020
VOIP-PAL.com, Inc. v. Apple Inc. Intellectual Property judge Dec. 13, 2019
Tony Nunez, individually and as a successor-in-interest to Decedent Anthony Nunez and the Estate of Anthony Nunez by and through personal representative Sandy Sanchez v. City of San Jose, Michael Santos, individually and in his capacity as an officer for the San Jose Police Department and Anthony Vizzusi, individually and in his capacity as an officer for the San Jose Police Department Civil Rights judge Nov. 8, 2019
Fred Sahadi v. Liberty Mutual Insurance, Liberty Mutual Company, Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company Insurance judge Oct. 25, 2019
Uniloc USA Inc. v. LG Electronics USA Inc., et al. Intellectual Property judge Oct. 4, 2019
Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm Inc. Antitrust judge Jul. 5, 2019
Patricia Harrell v. City of Gilroy, et al. Employment Law judge Jun. 28, 2019
Elinel Rabara v. Heartland Employment Services LLC Employment Law judge Jun. 14, 2019
Orcinus Holdings LLC v. Synchronoss Technologies Inc. Intellectual Property judge Jun. 7, 2019
Diana Hauck, et al. v. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Torts judge May 17, 2019
Voip-Pal.com Inc. v. Apple Inc. Intellectual Property judge Apr. 26, 2019
United States of America, ex rel. Carl Krawitt, an individual v. Infosys Technologies Limited, Incorporated, Apple Incorporated Immigration judge Apr. 19, 2019
Nayereh Madani v. County of Santa Clara Employment Law judge Mar. 29, 2019
Jacob McGovney, et al. v. Aerohive Networks Inc., et al. Securities judge Mar. 22, 2019
Rodrigo Raquedan, et al. v. Centerplate of Delaware Inc., et al. Employment Law judge Mar. 22, 2019
Dinh V. Le v. Nancy A. Berryhill Government judge Mar. 15, 2019
Ken Arredondo v. Nancy A. Berryhill Government judge Mar. 15, 2019
Michael Kenneth Hadden v. A. Adams, D. Bright, L. Gamboa, K. Kumar, L. D. Zamora, G. Ellis, M. Daniel, E. Sullivan, M. Sepulveda Civil Rights judge Feb. 1, 2019
Maria W. Lee, Wen T. Lee v. Retail Store Employee Building Corporation, Casa Del Pueblo Apartment, Barcelon Associates Management Corp. Civil Rights judge Feb. 2, 2018
Daniel Matera v. Google Inc. Torts judge Sep. 29, 2017
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