Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Sfr Investments Pool 1, Llc et al
MOTION for Summary Judgment SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment Regarding a Pure Issue of Law: Application of the Return Doctrine Post-Bourne Valley
Holding no liberty interest where even though the plaintiff feared that he would not be employed at additional health care institutions in the future, "it is the liberty to pursue a calling or occupation, and not the right to a specific job, that is secured by the Fourteenth Amendment."
Holding that a statutory scheme that did not permit pretrial detainees to vote by absentee ballot was unconstitutional where inmates were denied alternative means of voting (citing Goosby v. Osser, 409 U.S. 512 (1973))
Holding that plaintiff adequately stated UCL claim by alleging that defendant engaged in intentional interference with plaintiff's employment contracts
In Frost, the Court concluded that a 1925 amendment exempting certain corporations from making a showing of "public necessity" in order to obtain a cotton gin license was invalid and severable from the 1915 law that required that showing.
Holding the district court did not abuse its discretion "in excluding any nonjurisdictional issues of standing not designated for trial in the pretrial order"