The question matters because the federal appellate courts do a huge amount of America's legal case-work.
W. Bush, represented the 26 states in their challenge to ObamaCare before the trial and appellate courts.
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The federal district and appellate courts both ruled against the government, AbbVie, which is based in North Chicago, Ill.
We frequently represent clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts, in arbitration, and before government agencies, regulatory organizations and other tribunals.
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This process can take years if you want to drag it out long enough, through appellate courts and a long and exhausting appeals process.
Half of the graduates at the top law schools who then go on to clerk for the Supreme Court or federal appellate courts, are women.
When Florida's high court acted, it acted as appellate courts do, no more creating "new law" than any other appellate court when it decides an appeal.
David Boies is known primarily for his prowess in appellate courts and the Eighth Circuit may be more kind to the NFL than the District Court level.
The federal trial and appellate courts bought this rationale for reasons that defy logic but make political sense given the current anti-immigrant climate in Arizona and other border states.
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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said Monday it would decide whether voters can bar state universities from using racial preferences in admissions decisions, a question that has divided federal appellate courts.
Nine Republican hopefuls who wish to take Tom DeLay's place are hoping the 5th Circuit, one of the most conservative appellate courts in the country, will overturn Judge Sparks.
"Given the high burden appellate courts impose for reversing a district court's findings of fact, Waterkeeper Alliance will not appeal Judge Nickerson's decision, " the group said in a statement.
That decision was affirmed by appellate courts in 2012.
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Then of course, the third equal branch of government, the Judiciary, tests the constitutionality of laws through a myriad of circuit and appellate courts sometimes culminating into a landmark Supreme Court case.
To circumvent the Senate's constitutional role to advise and consent on nominations, President Obama has made so-called recess appointments when the Senate wasn't in recess appointments that two federal appellate courts agreed would be unconstitutional.
She is a nationally recognized appellate litigator who has practiced extensively before the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the appellate courts of the state of New York.
Some appellate courts have upheld lawyers' rights to research jurors online, including one in New Jersey that ruled last year that a lower-court judge erred by prohibiting a plaintiffs' attorney from using the Internet in the courtroom.
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Trial courts not appellate courts should decide such issues.
But two appellate courts have said so.
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"Jurisdictional statutes ought to be as clear as they can be, " he adds, noting that the 2-year-old statute's jurisdictional grant is so broad that cases could bounce around between state and federal courts and between trial and appellate courts.
In light of legitimate privacy concerns and the absence of any emergency or extraordinary considerations here, the Court concludes that approval of use of location data for this purpose is best considered deliberately in the legislature, or in the appellate courts.
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Many defense lawyers who practice in this area hope the Supreme Court takes the case and rejects the conclusion reached by the four appellate courts: that the Fifth Amendment does not protect against the compelled production of records under these circumstances.
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Testimony from such witnesses has long been viewed with skepticism by those experienced in the criminal justice system, but the federal appellate courts, including the U. S. Supreme Court, have never declared such sweetheart deals to be what they logically appear to be: a species of witness bribery or threats.
Second, a similar assessment should be done using U.S. federal legal cases (this study looks only at cases from courts in the the 50 states) as the study sample, using either the Google Scholar small sample of Appellate Court cases, or a larger one including a broader set of Trial Court cases that did not reach Appellate Courts.
The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have since appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court, because the REAL ID Act again, in the interest of expediting border fence construction eliminated the option of appealing district court decisions on the DHS waiver to any of the federal appellate courts, making direct appeal to the Supreme Court the only legal option left.
The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have since appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court, because the REAL ID Act -- again, in the interest of expediting border fence construction -- eliminated the option of appealing district court decisions on the DHS waiver to any of the federal appellate courts, making direct appeal to the Supreme Court the only legal option left.
Entitled S hariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases , the report is a microcosm of U.S. jurisprudence.
Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases includes summaries of a sample of twenty cases, as well as the full published texts for all fifty cases.
Rep. Gohmert noted that it is a matter of record that Mr. Jacks had filed compelling briefs at both the federal district and appellate levels - and was upheld by both courts - in his position that there were sufficient grounds to treat CAIR and others as co-conspirators with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
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In February 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court returned the case to the state courts to further consider the matter, but the Colorado appellate court reached the same conclusion -- that there was nothing wrong with the law.
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