Overseeing The Texas Pattern Jury Charges | Judge Dan Hinde | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Janik v. Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 2025 Pa. Super. 90 (Pa. Super. Apr. 22, 2025) - The Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed an order granting a new trial, as the jury was not instructed on the open and obvious...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - USA v. Zayas - currency transaction report, filing - Cunningham v. Cobb - § 1983, qualified immunity...more
The Supreme Court of Virginia taught appellate practitioners yet another hard lesson in how procedural pitfalls can scuttle otherwise compelling appeals. In Eckard v. Commonwealth, the pitfall was failing to get the complete...more
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently considered a challenge to Georgia’s preponderance-of-the-evidence pattern jury instruction, which is based upon a repealed version of Georgia’s prior evidence code. Reading from the...more