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Justice Must Satisfy the Appearance of Justice— A Judge’s Family’s Financial Interest of 100 Shares of a Party’s Stock Is a...

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CENTRIPETAL NETWORKS, INC. v. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. Before Dyk, Taranto, and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Summary: Placing stock in a blind trust does...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry

How the Federal Circuit (and Its Judges) Fare at the Supreme Court

How well do Federal Circuit decisions hold up at the Supreme Court? And which Federal Circuit judges have their votes most often affirmed? With the new Supreme Court term around the corner, we dove into a decade’s worth of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

Know Your En Banc Ninth: The Dissents Stay Dissents

In the past two weeks, we’ve examined which judges tend to agree and disagree with one another when on the same en banc panel, and which of those judges tend to end up in dissent. This week, we look at whether the views of...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

Voir Dire on Content, Not Effect: Lessons from the Tsarnaev Appeal

We tend to think of “bias” as it applies to juries, but courts can have their own deep-seated practices. For example, judges will often prefer voir dire questions that focus on the juror’s own assessment of the influence of a...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Dire Consequences: Avoiding Waiver in Pennsylvania Jury Selection

Practicing law at a socially appropriate distance has forced many litigators to broadly consider the value of face-to-face interaction—and what may be lost in its absence. A recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Supreme Court Rules Georgia Cannot Copyright Explanatory Annotations to Legislative Materials

On April 27, 2020,  the U.S. Supreme Court extended limits on the states’ ability to claim copyright protection over legislative materials and, specifically, over explanatory annotations added to legislative materials. The...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

News Now: Judges, Podcasts, Lawsuits, And More

August is here and temperatures are rising. Make sure to keep yourself cool while reading these public-law highlights: Remembering Justice Stevens. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died this month at the age of 99....more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The Two-Judge Appellate Panel

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Last week I blogged about an en banc opinion from the Fourth Circuit for which authorship of the majority opinion was attributed to two judges. This week from the Fourth Circuit came another two judge oddity-a panel opinion...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Results-disoriented–Ninth Circuit withdraws its Altera decision 

On August 7, 2018, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit withdrew its opinion in Altera Corporation v. Commissioner, just 15 days after the initial release of the opinion. The court in Altera had overturned a Tax...more

Roetzel & Andress

New Ohio Decision Clarifies Role of Judge and Jury in Eminent Domain Cases

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As a general rule, injuries that are shared in common with the general public are not compensable under Ohio eminent domain law. Ohio’s 4th District Court of Appeals recently ruled that the question of whether an injury is...more

Nossaman LLP

Judge Should Consider Constitutionality of a Dedication Requirement, Not the Jury

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Every year or so, a new appellate court decision comes out addressing the proper role of the judge versus the jury on some certain eminent domain issue. Most recently, a trial court, appellate court and the California Supreme...more

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