/appellate?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Appellate Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:54:04 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350698?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350698 The Third Circuit on Friday declined to fully undo Chipotle's win against a proposed class action that alleged it shortchanged customers during a COVID-19 pandemic coin shortage in 2020, reversing a lower court's determination that a Pennsylvania man waived a breach of contract claim by accepting his change without coins. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:42:40 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350684?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350684 An "apparent software malfunction" caused the U.S. Supreme Court's order list to be issued early Friday, orders in which the justices granted certiorari in four cases and refused to take up a long list of other ones, including cases centered on Pennsylvania's election system and the Obama Presidential Center. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:44:12 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350648?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350648 A split D.C. Circuit panel reinstated the White House's decision to ban the Associated Press from the press pool covering the Oval Office, Air Force One and Mar-a-Lago on Friday, while a dissenting judge criticized her colleagues' rationale as being nonsensical and upending longstanding First Amendment precedent and generations of tradition. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:56:38 +0000 /appellate/articles/2282108?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2282108 The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to consider claims that federal agencies failed to complete a full environmental review of plans to construct the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago's Jackson Park neighborhood. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:42:47 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350406?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350406 A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday affirmed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's construction deadline extension for the Mountain Valley Pipeline's southern spur, with one judge characterizing a suit challenging it as "typical" of litigation that has stymied American progress. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:28:48 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350542?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350542 The Texas Supreme Court on Friday greenlit a suit accusing a gynecologist of negligently giving a patient a note stating that she required a service dog which later mauled a toddler, saying the alleged negligence is not a malpractice claim, therefore the plaintiffs did not need a medical expert's opinion. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:28:11 +0000 /appellate/articles/2348758?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2348758 The U.S. Supreme Court halted discovery Friday into whether the Department of Government Efficiency is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act, but left the door open to future, more tailored inquiries about the inner workings of the initiative. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:27:32 +0000 /appellate/articles/2349368?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2349368 The U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to review a decision that telemedicine patents asserted against the U.S. government are invalid for claiming only abstract ideas, in the court's latest refusal to reconsider the standard for determining if inventions are eligible for patents. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:23:08 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350472?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350472 A Ninth Circuit judge on a panel doubted Seagate Technology's request to reverse NHK Spring's partial win in an antitrust fight over hard drive components, observing Friday that Seagate's position may broaden antitrust liability and asking "how does this not open up the floodgates for a new plaintiffs' cottage industry?" Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:29:38 +0000 /appellate/articles/2348947?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2348947 An employee has asked the en banc Eleventh Circuit to rethink its ruling that wholesale restaurant supply store McLane Foodservice Inc. is not liable for injuries suffered by an employee who was set on fire at work by a former partner, arguing it took too narrow a view on foreseeability. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:28:08 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350551?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350551 Washington appellate judges expressed skepticism on Friday regarding an ambulance company's stance that qualified immunity shielded it from a patient estate's $2.3 million jury verdict over a mid-transport crash, while also casting doubt on the family's contention that the defendant had forfeited its appeal rights. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:26:52 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350513 The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday rejecting the Ninth Circuit's outlier interpretation of a jurisdictional question in a $1.3 billion arbitral award enforcement case came as no surprise to arbitration experts, who say they will nevertheless continue closely watching the case to see how outstanding issues are resolved. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:23:05 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350623?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350623 The Sixth Circuit on Friday partly revived drivers' claims alleging General Motors deceptively marketed Chevrolet Cruze vehicles as clean vehicles when they were actually outfitted with emissions-cheating software, punting a question of preemption back to Michigan federal court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:54:22 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350579?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350579 The Texas Supreme Court on Friday closed a "gaping jurisdictional loophole" that allowed defendants to challenge jurisdiction in just about any case involving multiple plaintiffs, saying the mere presence of multiple plaintiffs is not enough to invoke appellate review. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:38:27 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350034?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350034 The Texas attorney general's office told the state's Supreme Court that a lower court went too far by blocking an investigation into an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization that allegedly had knowledge about outside parties performing gender-affirming care on minors, saying the court undermined the AG's investigative authority. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:33:19 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350529?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350529 A New Jersey state appeals court on Friday backed the state's Department of Banking and Insurance in denying a long-term care insurer's request to increase its policy rates, agreeing that the proposed triple-digit rate increase on aging policyholders was excessive. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:26:20 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350090?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350090 Iraq has filed an appellate brief urging the D.C. Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling giving a Cypriot construction firm permission to enforce a nearly $120 million arbitral award it won in a dispute over a major port project. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:13:37 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350332?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350332 A Federal Circuit panel on Friday wrestled with its authority to consider arbitration appeals dealing with patent law, with at least one judge appearing skeptical that it could consider Acorda Therapeutics Inc.'s bid to increase a $16.6 million award in a fight with Alkermes PLC over a multiple sclerosis drug. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:01:34 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350537?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350537 The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's disgorgement powers, turning away an appeal brought by an investment adviser who was ordered to pay $32 million after a lower court found that he and his firm defrauded clients. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:19:56 +0000 /appellate/articles/2350444?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2350444 A New Jersey state appeals court on Friday revived a Paterson property owner's suit against a would-be dispensary and its principals alleging they broke a deal to share profits from the dispensary, finding that the trial court wrongly conflated the contract's requirement for local approval with a cannabis license.