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Appellate À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ provides breaking news and analysis on appellate law. Coverage includes major cases in the federal courts of appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court, and state-level appeals courts, with a focus on petitions, briefs, oral arguments, decisions, and other major activity.
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Latest News in Appellate
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September 19, 2025
Trump Asks High Court To Lift Block On Trans Passport Ban
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift a nationwide order requiring the U.S. Department of State to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary individuals that reflect their gender identity, arguing the mandate wrongly compels the government to express speech it disagrees with.
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September 19, 2025
Michigan Justices To Weigh Enbridge Pipeline Tunnel Dispute
The Michigan Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear challenges to state regulators' approval of an Enbridge Energy LP plan to construct a miles-long tunnel for a petroleum pipeline underneath a Great Lakes shipping corridor.
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September 19, 2025
Mich. Top Court Again Backs Retroactive Auto Reform Limits
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday reversed a lower state appellate panel's decision in a dispute over whether no-fault reforms enacted in 2019 apply to policies that "straddled" the reform effective dates, pointing to the top court's earlier finding that such policies are subjected to post-reform increased limits for liability.
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September 19, 2025
Google Must Face Suit Over Mideast Protest Firings
Google managed to narrow, but couldn't knock out, a proposed class action challenging the firings of employees who protested the company's connections to the Israeli military, as a California federal court said it's too soon to decide if the in-office dissent lost the protection of federal anti-retaliation law.
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September 19, 2025
Full 2nd Circ. Lets Students Facing Removal Stay Free, For Now
The Second Circuit on Friday declined to revisit its earlier decisions that allowed two foreign students facing deportation, allegedly for their pro-Palestinian advocacy, to stay out of detention, rejecting the Trump administration's bid to find it lacks jurisdiction over their cases.

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