/appellate?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Appellate Copyright 2025 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. en-US Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:58:17 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398665?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398665 A large contingent of Ninth Circuit judges accused colleagues Friday of ignoring recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions limiting legal remedies in politically charged disputes, adding fresh fuel to a heated debate over the judiciary's handling of suits against the Trump administration. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:55:27 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398518?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398518 Consumers urged the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to revive their claims in a multidistrict litigation alleging that the main ingredient in the heartburn medication Zantac causes cancer, saying the court overseeing the case improperly sided with drugmakers' experts and preempted more claims from coming forward. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:53:06 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398554?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398554 A Fourth Circuit panel has refused to grant the government more time to respond to several major unions' petition for an en banc rehearing regarding the panel's split August decision granting the Department of Government Efficiency access to personal data that is held by several federal agencies. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:24:44 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398480?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398480 Solicitor General D. John Sauer has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to find that courts should defer to Board of Immigration Appeals' determinations on whether asylum seekers suffered persecution or the threat of persecution back home, arguing that it's a factual analysis that appellate courts are "ill-equipped to handle." Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:49:48 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398265?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398265 A former Texas bank CEO has asked the full Fifth Circuit to revive his constitutional challenge to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s in-house enforcement process, arguing that a recent panel decision to reject his case as premature "cries out" for review. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:29:22 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398539?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398539 Percipient.ai urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review an en banc Federal Circuit ruling limiting who qualifies as an interested party eligible to protest an alleged statutory violation committed by the government in connection with a procurement at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.  Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:28:54 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398565?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398565 A panel of Federal Circuit judges seemed wary Friday that language from the America Invents Act barring private parties from raising multiple patent challenges also applies to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:19:45 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398707?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398707 A series of rulings by a Delaware vice chancellor on Friday resolved for now disputes over control of Caribevision TV Network LLC, the self-described media "eyes and ears of the Caribbean" that recently saw police called in to block an attempt to replace the company's CEO. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:58:08 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398527?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398527 Arrow Field Services LLC settled with Linde Engineering North America Inc. after the latter secured a $20 million verdict, ending an appeal of the decision at the Texas Supreme Court Friday. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:33:56 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398184?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398184 Sen. Ron Wyden and several whistleblower organizations have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive for a second time a fired UBS worker's whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, pointing to a "deep and direct conflict" the Second Circuit has created with its latest decision in the case. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:24:37 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398455?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398455 A lawyer's failure to alert his client that a drunken-driving conviction would cost him his license to carry a gun is not ineffective assistance of counsel, a Massachusetts intermediate-level appeals court panel concluded. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:21:59 +0000 /appellate/articles/2378543?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2378543 The U.S. Supreme Court will return Tuesday to hear oral arguments in four cases, including a dispute over the constitutionality of the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act and whether federal prisoners seeking postconviction relief are subject to the same rules as state inmates. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:12:09 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398700?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398700 A California appellate court has revived a lawsuit brought by developers challenging Redondo Beach's plans to develop lower- and moderate-income housing, ruling on Friday the city's map for the plans violates state law. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:10:09 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398638?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398638 Eighteen Republican lawmakers on Friday told the U.S. Supreme Court the Trump administration is right to assert that the 14th Amendment was never meant to confer birthright citizenship to the children of parents who are in the country without legal authorization. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:00:15 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398721?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398721 The U.S. Supreme Court will consider which exceptions might apply to criminal appeal waivers, which are common in plea deals, the court announced Friday. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:49:28 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398680?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398680 The Fifth Circuit agreed with a district judge Friday that an $8 billion trade secrets case between two electric vehicle companies was better suited to be litigated in Israel, saying the party that wants to keep the dispute stateside had not adequately explained why that would be better. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:43:04 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398535?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398535 An activist investor has told the U.S. Supreme Court that a series of investment funds, with the backing of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are "dead wrong" to say it has no right to sue over their decision to dilute the investor's voting shares. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:34:06 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398702?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398702 A computer scientist who was denied a copyright for artwork created by an artificial intelligence system he built has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his appeal challenging the U.S. Copyright Office's decision. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:28:43 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398625?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398625 The Eleventh Circuit has ruled that a man sentenced to 10 years in prison was not double-charged when he was deemed ineligible to receive a sentence reduction under a federal safety-valve mechanism, as his sentence for drug dealing included a firearms enhancement, and he was separately charged for that firearms offense. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:27:46 +0000 /appellate/articles/2398629?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2398629 A law firm's professional liability insurer has a duty to defend it and one of its attorneys in an underlying malpractice lawsuit stemming from their representation of defendants that faced civil forfeiture claims, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday, finding that a "misappropriation exclusion" did not wholly foreclose coverage.