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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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