/appellate?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Appellate Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:53:02 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418706?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418706 The Federal Circuit spent Friday morning debating whether Ingevity Corp.'s argument that it should be immune from an $85 million antitrust verdict holds water because the chemical and carbon product maker thought it was enforcing its patent rights, even though the jury said it was illegal tying. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:40:29 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418806?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418806 Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged a Ninth Circuit panel during a hearing Friday to scrap orders requiring him to give a limited deposition in privacy litigation over Facebook's alleged collection of health data, arguing the plaintiffs failed to exhaust alternative methods of getting the information they seek. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:54:37 +0000 /appellate/articles/2419024?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2419024 Two Ninth Circuit judges appeared confused Friday as to what exactly the Trump administration and some sanctuary cities are arguing over in the government's appeal of a district court's injunction blocking the administration from withholding federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:43:15 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418751?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418751 The Federal Circuit on Friday invalidated a deal between Pratt & Whitney and the federal government concerning what can be included in the company's overhead costs for its government and commercial engine programs, while declining to rule on how those costs should be allocated. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:37:01 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418827?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418827 The Second Circuit on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a proposed securities class action accusing Barclays PLC of misleading investors about its internal controls before the bank accidentally oversold billions of dollars' worth of exchange-traded notes, finding the complaint did not allege that the bank's executives acted with fraudulent intent. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:13:01 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418885?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418885 A California state appeals court has reversed a lower court's decision denying an injury firm co-founding partner's petition to compel arbitration in a dispute with his former law partner over referral and attorney fees, finding that an arbitration clause may be enforceable. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:02:37 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418934?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418934 The U.S. solicitor general on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Hikma Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s appeal of a decision reviving a patent suit involving its "skinny label" on a generic heart drug, saying the ruling puts the availability of lower-cost generics at risk. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:56:12 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418898?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418898 A Connecticut man convicted of murdering and robbing two women in 2007 to support a drug habit should have been afforded a hearing concerning his motion to dismiss his attorney before his habeas petition was denied, the state's appellate court announced Friday. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:48:12 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418933?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418933 A Texas appellate court pressed counsel for the Texas Department of Public Safety to explain how sovereign immunity bars tort claims brought by the victims who survived the Uvalde massacre, asking Friday why the agency should get to avoid negligence claims. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:29:03 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418467?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418467 The Seventh Circuit has backed the dismissal of a Palestinian American's Fair Housing Act lawsuit that accused an apartment building's owner and operator of wrongfully evicting her after she refused to remove a Palestinian flag outside her apartment window. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:20:24 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418362?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418362 A company licensed to temporarily store nuclear waste urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a challenge to a condition in its license application to contract with the U.S. Department of Energy once Congress allows it. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:11:08 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418860?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418860 The Ninth Circuit rejected the Trump administration's effort to undo a lower court's pause on federal funding reductions to K-12 mental health services, siding with a coalition of 16 states seeking to preserve programs established in the wake of high-profile school shootings. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:01:26 +0000 /appellate/articles/2417981?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2417981 Jamaican-born Eric Tolliver is nearing the end of his 33-year prison sentence in New York, but what waits for him on the other side might be worse: deportation to his home country, where many want him dead. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:57:16 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418962?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418962 The Sixth Circuit reversed a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determination that the Detroit area meets federal air quality standards, ruling Friday that the state of Michigan failed to implement federally required air pollution controls. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:52:23 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418808?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418808 A Delaware federal judge has shot down Hopewell Pharma Ventures' bid to lift a regulatory stay on approval of its planned generic version of German drugmaker Merck's blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Mavenclad. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:40:27 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418768?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418768 The U.S. International Trade Commission has held that a group of foreign companies is violating Section 337 of the Tariff Act by shipping diamond drill bit components that infringe a U.S. company's patent and issued an order banning such imports after the case was remanded by the Federal Circuit. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:39:18 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418830?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418830 The Seventh Circuit on Thursday rejected a real estate banking business's argument it should have been prioritized over other investors for proceeds from the liquidation of assets related to an alleged $135 million Ponzi scheme, and affirmed a lower court's finding it would have learned of those other investors' interests on two Chicago properties with a more diligent inquiry. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:36:19 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418355?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418355 A D.C. federal court's order pausing the Internal Revenue Service's ability to share confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials should not impact a separate D.C. Circuit proceeding over whether the information-sharing agreement complies with taxpayer privacy protections, the U.S. government told the D.C. Circuit. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:33:43 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418680?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418680 A Delaware woman with terminal cancer cannot end her life with medical assistance in New Jersey, the Third Circuit ruled Friday in a precedential opinion, finding that the Garden State residency requirement for medical aid in dying is restricted solely to New Jerseyans. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:32:22 +0000 /appellate/articles/2418379?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2418379 A union pension plan must comply with an order compelling it to restore benefits to certain early retirees while it appeals the ruling that required it to do so, the Tenth Circuit held, denying the plan's request for a stay of the order.