Kenneth Kiyul Lee
How Judge Lee rules, drawn from 36 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Lee
Kenneth Kiyul Lee is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Appointed by President Donald J. Trump, Judge Lee received a commission on June 12, 2019.
Judge Lee's practices and standing orders
The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Lee's own (checked October 11, 2026), so the court's local rules and general orders are the place to look (court page ↗).
Standing orders for every case in this court
Orders the court applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 11, 2026).
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The district court granted the government's motion for judgment on the pleadings, ruling that the taxi drivers failed to state plausible claims. We affirm. The rules are rationally related to the legitimate government interests of aiding beleaguered taxi drivers and easing taxi congestion at the airport.”
“We thus hold that the FDCA authorizes the defendants’ structure/function claim about biotin and preempts Greenberg’s state law claims challenging them.”
“The district court’s order granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss is AFFIRMED.”
“We REVERSE the district court’s approval of the settlement, and REMAND this case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”
“PETITION FOR REVIEW IS DENIED.”
“Twitter's statements about its advertising program were not false or misleading because they were qualified and factually true. The company had no duty to disclose any more than it did under federal securities law. We thus affirm the district court's dismissal of the lawsuit.”
“We DENY in part Greenwood's petition as to his motion to reopen based on changed country conditions, and DISMISS in part his petition seeking review of the BIA's exercise of its sua sponte discretion.”
“We thus DENY Rivera Vega’s petition for review.”
“We thus reject Hernandez-Garcia's claim that the U.S. Marines' surveillance at the border violated the Posse Comitatus Act. We also deny Hernandez-Garcia's Batson challenge because he failed to rebut the prosecution's race-neutral reasons for striking two Asian jurors. We affirm Hernandez-Garcia's conviction.”
“The BIA thus erred in holding that the earlier adverse credibility finding barred Singh's motion to reopen. The BIA also erroneously concluded that Singh failed to show that the conditions for Sikhs in India changed qualitatively since his last hearing. ... We thus grant the petition and remand.”
“We hold that an 'automatic telephone dialing system' must generate and dial random or sequential telephone numbers under the TCPA's plain text. ... eFinancial thus has not used an autodialer, and its texts to Borden do not implicate the TCPA. We thus affirm the district court's dismissal of the lawsuit.”
“We hold that the appointment and removal process for Immigration Judges and members of the BIA comports with Article II of our Constitution. For these reasons ... we DENY Amador Duenas's petition for review.”
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