/appellate?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Appellate Copyright 2025 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. en-US Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:13:55 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380297?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380297 While the D.C. Circuit on Friday declined to revive Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's lawsuit challenging her suspension, experts said the court provided an opening for her to seek further review, by suggesting that the precedent limiting the arguments available to her may be flawed. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:56:51 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380211?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380211 A Connecticut appellate panel vacated sexual assault convictions against a man accused of abusing his former girlfriend's children and granted him a new trial after finding his counsel failed to raise a statute of limitations defense, according to an opinion released Friday. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:20:36 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380328?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380328 The Ninth Circuit blocked an order requiring California's attorney general and third-party state agencies to respond to Meta's discovery demands in multidistrict litigation concerning the company's allegedly addictive designs, ruling Friday the attorney general isn't deemed to possess or control the state agencies' records and Meta must obtain them through subpoenas. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:17:57 +0000 /appellate/articles/2379564?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2379564 A Mexican businessman at the center of an allegedly fraudulent loan scheme underpinning an international tribunal's $47 million award to a Canadian investor is urging the D.C. Circuit to cancel the award, calling the underlying arbitration a "blatant denial" of due process. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:47:21 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380220?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380220 An Ohio appeals court has declared that the state's statutory limit on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice cases is unconstitutional because it violated the right to due process to a patient who suffered a severe brain disorder. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:39:48 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380252?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380252 A split Third Circuit panel on Friday upheld, 2-1, a New Jersey bankruptcy judge's discretion in reopening Congoleum Corp.'s 2003 Chapter 11 case and barring Occidental Chemical from pursuing Congoleum affiliate Bath Iron Works to recover pollution liability expenses. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:31:24 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380266?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380266 A Pennsylvania federal judge's ruling disqualifying Alina Habba from acting as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey has the potential to end a long-standing means of filling government posts without going through the U.S. Senate. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:04:00 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380247?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380247 California employers need to show they took reasonable steps to comply with minimum wage laws to support a good faith defense against liquidated damages, the California Supreme Court ruled, flipping a state appellate court decision. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:01:21 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380271?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380271 An attorney for two Christian flight attendants who say they were illegally fired by Alaska Airlines and abandoned by their labor union for opposing the airline's support for LGBTQ+ rights urged the Ninth Circuit Friday to revive their case, saying it is clear from the record that they were fired for their religious beliefs.  Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:23:52 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380115?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380115 Startup accelerator Y Combinator is backing Epic Games as Apple asks the Ninth Circuit to nix an order blocking it from charging commissions on app purchases made outside its payment system, telling the appeals court Apple "blatantly violated" a previous order. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:23:49 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380112?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380112 A Georgia probate court judge is set to face charges Monday from the state's judicial ethics watchdog that he allowed a series of cases to languish on his docket for years, in a case where the jurist largely copped to the misconduct allegations against him. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:06:24 +0000 /appellate/articles/2379860?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2379860 The Federal Election Commission and the Republican Party urged the U.S. Supreme Court to abolish limits on how much political parties can spend on campaigns in cooperation with candidates, saying there's no legitimate anti-corruption reason to cap party spending. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:53:01 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380183?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380183 A split Ninth Circuit panel on Friday upheld a lower court's decision to invalidate an Interior Department land transfer in Idaho for the expansion of a phosphogypsum plant, saying that a 1900 federal law limits the disposal of treaty-ceded lands. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:50:25 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380131?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380131 The Second Circuit on Friday partially revived claims that UBS AG and the Royal Bank of Scotland PLC manipulated a key interest rate for the lending of euros, allowing a pair of funds to press forward with claims that the banks' actions harmed U.S. investors trading derivatives tied to the rate. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:44:24 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380243?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380243 The Second Circuit on Friday refused to temporarily block Connecticut's restrictions on AR-15-style weapons and high-capacity magazines, saying the National Association for Gun Rights and individual permit holders were unlikely to mount successful Second Amendment challenges to laws passed shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:39:52 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380193?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380193 Environmentalists have asked the Fifth Circuit to cancel air permits issued by Louisiana environmental regulators for a liquefied natural gas export terminal, saying the permits were unlawfully issued and will increase pollution for nearby communities. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:37:19 +0000 /appellate/articles/2379798?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2379798 A truck mudflap entrepreneur who won a patent infringement trial representing himself failed to convince the Federal Circuit on Friday to recalculate his $228,000 damages award, which he said would have been higher absent a "fraud" on the lower court. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:08:21 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380257?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380257 The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed the conviction and 34-year-to-life sentence of a man found guilty of sexual assault on a child, pointing to a district court error in holding the trial one month outside of the speedy trial window and remanding the case for dismissal of all charges. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:04:23 +0000 /appellate/articles/2380197?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2380197 A North Carolina administrative court does not have the power to find a state tax law unconstitutional as applied, the state's highest court ruled Friday, upholding a loss for Philip Morris in a $300,000 franchise tax case. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:57:42 +0000 /appellate/articles/2376584?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2376584 Seven months into his presidency, more than a third of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees hailed from a pool not tapped nearly as much as his predecessors: state solicitors general.