Four more circuit courts of appeals are slated to weigh in on the constitutionality of the health-care law.
By my count, pardon me, at least 17 of our cases have been decided by the federal courts of appeals, and we have been fortunate in prevailing in all 17.
He noted that the order applies only to a single case, and that similar questions have been raised in more than a dozen cases pending in other courts of appeals.
As you know, in a rogue decision inconsistent with previous Supreme Court and United States courts of appeals decisions, Judge Virginia Phillips of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, ruled recently that the law barring those who are openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual from military service is unconstitutional.
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The questions of how and when an agency may exempt itself from the Privacy Act are not only central to this case, but also have divided the federal courts of appeals into two camps, a circuit split that could be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court should Shearson petition successfully for her case to be heard.
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Massachusetts case and out in Seattle, where school districts on their own set up voluntary measures to assign students to schools, and in two cases, two courts of appeals have held that this is constitutional on the same theory as the big University of Michigan cases in 2003 that diversity is a compelling state interest in our society today.
Until 1982, responsibility for developing this body of law was divided among 13 appeals courts, 12 of which had generalist judges who spent most of their time ruling on other types of cases.
There are four vacancies on that bench -- more than any of the 13 federal appeals courts -- and much of the debate on Halligan was whether the court's caseload was enough to justify filling the bench with more judges.
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.
That court is the only one of the four federal appeals courts to have ruled on the law that found any aspect of it unconstitutional.
The Tax Court sided with the IRS, as did three of five appeals courts.
Finally, federal law preempts state laws that conflict, as in the case of Prop. 37, and federal appeals courts have found repeatedly that mandatory labeling must pertain to issues of health or safe use.
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The Court of Appeals reversed lower courts, which had applied the usual liability test for injuries by domestic animals, such as dogs or even aggressive bulls, based on their vicious tendencies.
The Court of Appeals reversed lower courts, which had applied the usual liability test for injuries by domestic animals, such as dogs or even aggressive bulls whether the owner or landowner knew of the animal's vicious tendencies.
Most courts, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, have held that borrowers who want to do this also must sue the bank within the three-year deadline.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is widely thought of as the most important, and most prestigious, of the thirteen federal appeals courts.
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Currently pending in several federal appeals courts is the validity of a recent regulation that says the IRS has six years, rather than the normal three, to audit and adjust a return when a taxpayer fails to properly report capital gain or loss due to a miscalculation of basis in property.
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Four federal appeals courts heard challenges to parts of the law before the Supreme Court ruling, and came up with three different results.
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Four different federal appeals courts heard challenges to parts of the law before the Supreme Court ruling, and came up with three different results.
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Two appeals courts have ruled in favor of the mandate, and one has struck it down but said the rest of the overhaul should stand.
Judges' instructions to juries are often aimed less at clarifying their understanding of the facts than at placating appeals courts.
Unlike with most civil jury verdicts, which are given great deference by appeals courts, with patent appeals the reviewing court can take a new look at the fundamental question of what the patents actually covered.
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Federal courts in Washington have since been flooded by a variety of appeals from current and former Guantanamo prisoners.
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In other words, there's now a standard for whether appeals courts even really get to the merits of an appeal at all in death-penalty cases.
Most of the dozens of pending cases have been handled in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, which in February 2007 upheld the Military Commissions Act's provision stripping courts of jurisdiction to hear "habeas" challenges to the prisoners' confinement.
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The courts are being buried under an avalanche of re-sentencing petitions and appeals.
Italy's courts follow the principle that appeals should be allowed at each stage of the process so as to minimise the chance of an injustice.
He may well be able to avoid a trial in Spain and spend the rest of his days in Britain with repeated appeals in the British courts.
Dutrow had unsuccessfully appealed the license revocation in state courts, with the punishment put on hold until the New York Court of Appeals in January declined to hear his latest appeal.
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