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Not So Fast: Enforcing an Appellate Decision Requires the Appellate Court’s Mandate or Remand

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Here is a typical scenario. You appeal your case to a federal or state appellate court. The briefing is done and dusted. The case is argued. Everyone is patiently waiting for the appellate court’s decision. Then — voila — the...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Judicial Review Notwithstanding the Charter’s “Notwithstanding” Clause? Yes, Says Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal

On August 11, 2025, the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan (SKCA) released a major decision about section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter), which is colloquially referred to as the “notwithstanding”...more

Saul Ewing LLP

D.C. Circuit Curbs Investigative Use of Omnibus Non-Disclosure Orders Under Stored Communications Act

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In a rare appellate ruling regarding the breadth of Section 2705 of the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held the government could not use a broad, prospective nondisclosure...more

Freiberger Haber LLP

The Second Department Holds that New York Need Not Possess Personal Jurisdiction Over a Judgment Debtor in Order to Recognize and...

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In today’s BLOG, we will address the enforcement of foreign judgments (i.e., judgments obtained outside the State of New York) in New York.[1]Simply stated, armed with a money judgment, a judgment creditor can employ numerous...more

Benesch

Post Loper Bright, Courts Differ on How to Handle Skidmore

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For 40 years, courts applied the precedent set by the United States Supreme Court in Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. National Resources Defense Council, Inc. by deferring to administrative agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes....more

Winstead PC

Court Affirmed A Probate Court’s Granting Of Plea To The Jurisdiction Based On The Estate Beneficiaries’ Lack Of Standing

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In Est. of Smith, the beneficiaries of an estate filed claims that the decedent was mentally incompetent when she deeded her residence to her grandson and granddaughter-in-law. No. 02-24-00175-CV, 2024 Tex. App. LEXIS 8272...more

Oliva Gibbs

A river ran through it: State v. Riemer and what happens to the mineral rights when the water runs dry

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Lake Meredith is a reservoir located about 30 miles northeast of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. It was formed when the State of Texas built the Sanford Dam on the Canadian River in 1965. When the dam was completed the...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship

As an update to our previous client alert regarding birthright citizenship, on July 23, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship...more

Jackson Walker

Fifth Circuit Criminal Opinions: Insights and Analyses Part V

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Hi all. Below is the June edition of the Fifth Circuit criminal and civil case summaries, with a special focus on cases of interest to white-collar practitioners. In June, the Fifth Circuit considered a number of Bruen-based...more

BCLP

Legal Privilege - the King has been advised - the Shareholder Rule no longer applies under English Law

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Yesterday in a landmark decision, Jardine Strategic Limited v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and others, the Privy Council, on appeal from Bermuda’s Court of Appeal, has changed the law....more

Whiteford

Client Alert: Assignments of Error: Is That Your Final Answer?

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On July 22, 2025, the Virginia Court of Appeals issued a published order in Sisco v. Holtzman, Rec. No. 024025, clarifying the rules for assignments of error in appellate proceedings. Assignments matter. The Court of Appeals...more

Clark Hill PLC

California’s Fourth Appellate District provides much-needed clarity for summary judgment motions

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In the landscape of California civil litigation, few procedural devices carry the weight, complexity, and consequence of a motion for summary judgment (MSJ). Governed by California Code of Civil Procedure § 437c (which sets...more

Lerman Senter PLLC

Potential Federal Court Circuit Split Increases Uncertainty Around FCC's Enforcement Authority

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A potential federal court circuit split is developing over the constitutionality of the enforcement authority of federal agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)....more

Carlton Fields

Florida Appeals Court Decisions Week of July 14 - 18, 2025

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U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Walmart v. King - APA, ALJs, constitutional challenge - Gray v. Birchfield - employment, harassment, punitive damages, assault, battery - USA v. Rowe - prior panel precedent...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Do Not Try Again: Judge Oetken Invokes Collateral Estoppel to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Infringement...

On July 9, 2025, Judge J. Paul Oetken (S.D.N.Y) found that collateral estoppel barred plaintiff Linfo IP, LLC from relitigating the validity of its asserted patent and dismissed Linfo’s infringement claims against Aero...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

NJ Appellate Court Reaffirms Employees’ Right to Bring LAD Claims in Court

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The New Jersey Appellate Division recently issued an important decision clarifying how claims brought under the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) interact with agency proceedings in employment matters. Specifically, it made...more

Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.

Yes, an Arbitrator Can Exceed Their Powers in the Eleventh Circuit

The reports of the death of Section 10 of the FAA may have been greatly exaggerated. Thursday, a majority of the Eleventh Circuit held in Nalco Co. LLC v. Bonday that an arbitration award was subject to vacatur under Section...more

Kaufman & Canoles

Title Insurance Client Alert - Important Court of Appeals of Virginia Opinion Concerning the Ownership and Use of Certain...

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Last week, the Court of Appeals of Virginia issued a significant 24-page opinion in David Tidwell, et al. v. Kenneth. M Goldsmith, et al., Record No. 0629-24-1 and Record No. 0666-24-1, in consolidated cases concerning the...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Are North Carolina Court of Appeals Judges Dissenting Less?

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Until recently, a single judge sitting on a panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals could tee up an issue for the Supreme Court of North Carolina simply by filing a dissenting opinion. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-30(2) allowed...more

Adams & Reese

Florida Appeals Court Reverses Mortgage Foreclosure for Lack of Specific Findings

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A Florida Appeals court ruled that specific findings are required in mortgage foreclosure summary judgments – generic orders are not sufficient. Lenders and foreclosure attorneys must provide detailed, record-based...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Appeals Court Clarifies Limits on Deportation Following Denaturalization for Fraud

On June 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated a removal order, holding that a naturalized U.S. citizen could not be deported following denaturalization for fraud, where he failed to disclose a recent...more

Robinson+Cole Class Actions Insider

How Will Trump v. CASA, Inc.  Affect Class Certification Law?

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., –– S. Ct. ––, 2025 WL 1773631 (U.S. June 27, 2025), restricting the use of “universal injunctions” by federal district courts, is receiving extensive attention...more

Littler

Remand Rules: Oregon Supreme Court Clarifies What You Can Appeal

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On June 24, 2025, the Oregon Supreme Court held in Crosbie v. Asante that a trial court order of the scope of issues to be retried after reversal and remand cannot be immediately appealed....more

Troutman Amin LLP

A SHARP DISSENT: A Review Of The Dissent’s Take On The Supreme Court’s Ruling In McLaughlin.

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In McLaughlin Chiropractic Assocs., Inc. v. McKesson Corp., No. 23-1226, 2025 WL 1716136 (U.S. June 20, 2025), the Supreme Court determined that the Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

U.S. Supreme Court holds district courts are not bound by agency interpretations in civil enforcement proceedings

On June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded a lower court decision, holding that the Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to an agency’s interpretation of a statute. In this...more

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