Sentences with phrase «appellate opinion»

A recent appellate opinion discusses how one plaintiff's execution of an overly broad settlement agreement actually dismissed multiple defendants from the case, despite her lack of intention to do so.

With a couple exceptions, both have all state appellate opinions at least back to 1950.

We use cases to illustrate the issues, but we don't use appellate opinions.

Every federal and state appellate opinion can be found online at no cost.

Although automatism and involuntary intoxication are distinct defenses, they are regularly discussed in appellate opinions together.

MDEX Online, a medical - legal consulting firm headquartered in Chicago, estimates there are more than 4,000 trial and appellate opinions interpreting and applying Daubert and its offspring.

The inclusion of unreported cases is useful to Ohio attorneys because appellate opinions issued after May 1, 2002 are binding.1 Unfortunately, Google does not identify the scope of coverage, but its database appears to have more unreported opinions from federal circuit courts than federal district courts.

For courses focusing on writing appellate opinions, this is an excellent alternative to Opinion Writing and can be added to other articles and book chapters to provide materials for a more comprehensive course.

The index is organized by category and subcategory allowing for quick identification of appellate opinions relating to a specific type of case.

Lead attorney on four important, precedent - setting appellate opinions: Schreiber v. Estate of Kiser (a California Supreme Court case dealing with expert witness designations); Hernandez v. State of California (dealing with governmental design immunity); Martinez v. Ford Motor Company (an auto products case dealing with Forum Non Conveniens); Romine v Johnson Controls (an auto products case dealing with consumer expectation test for defect).

In January 2013, noting that none of the seven published South Carolina appellate opinions dealing with the issue of «continued cohabitation» had found it existed and therefore terminated alimony, I blogged, «Is there ever sufficient evidence of «continued cohabitation» to terminate alimony?»

Researched and wrote drafts of numerous appellate opinions dealing with both civil and criminal issues

Washington appellate opinions now available free back to territorial days.

Friend and colleague Mary Jane (M.J.) Goodwin suggested I blog on the propriety of citing unpublished appellate opinions as legal authority in other cases.

As I wrote here earlier today, beginning in January, Fastcase will collaborate with Public.Resource.Gov to launch the Report of Current Opinions, a weekly release of all federal and state appellate opinions available for anyone to use without restriction.

Over and over, California appellate opinions through the years reiterate that the term «best defines itself»»; that «all attempts at definition are likely to prove confusing and dangerous»; and that «every attempt to explain [the definition of reasonable doubt] renders an explanation of the explanation necessary.»

I review my picks for the year's 10 most important appellate opinions involving the admissibility of expert opinions and the procedural formalities surround their use.

As the name suggests, it focuses on family law in Texas, tracking all Texas civil appellate opinions relating to family law and posting information about them within within 24 to 48 hours after their release.

Until last year, Georgia appellate opinions were conveniently offered through a single Web site — and one which was, I believe, an official court site.

This comprehensive monthly review and digest of current New York State Appellate Tort decisions also includes access to the cumulative online appellate opinion index.

The academics and the journalists cared about the sliver that involved something else — and of that, the small portions that led to published appellate opinions.

Yesterday brought two appellate opinions from Boston - based courts — one federal, one state — in which lawyers participated not as advocates, but as litigants.

Read appellate opinions and buy old copies of Hornbooks on Amazon if you can not afford the new ones.

A recent Florida appellate opinion discusses the applicability of a recreational use statute to a rollerblade injury case, finding that the plaintiff was prevented from bringing a lawsuit against the government entity he claimed was responsible for his injuries.

In a long - standing commercial tenancy dispute producing an earlier appellate opinion reversing a SLAPP motion, a former landlord (plaintiff and cross-defendant) finally prevailed against tenant when the trial judge after a bench trial awarded landlord $ 85,000 in back rent plus prejudgment interest after tenant dismissed her cross-complaint.

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* opportunities for students to address alone and in teams complex, fact - intensive problems as they arise in the world (rather than digested into legal doctrines in appellate opinions) and to generate and evaluate solutions through private ordering, regulation, litigation and other strategies;

RECOP will include all federal and state supreme and appellate opinions issued beginning Jan. 1, 2011.

The October 7, 2015 Supreme Court opinion in Moore v. Moore, 414 S.C. 490, 779 S.E. 2d 533 (2015), is the first published South Carolina appellate opinion to distinguish personal goodwill from enterprise goodwill for equitable distribution purposes.

Although Washington appellate opinions were also available through free legal research sites, the court's announcement said that the free sites «didn't have fully updated and reliably accurate versions of all opinions.»

Neither State Judicial nor the Colorado Bar Association provides case summaries for unpublished appellate opinions.

I really don't know, but then again neither do appellate experts such as Howard Bashman, who writes, «Just when you thought that every possible type of appellate opinion had already been created, Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski goes and invents one more.»

Posts cover cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and blogger Lyle Denniston also writes a «constitution check» series of posts in which he investigates assertions made about the constitution in the media and appellate opinions.

Walters estimates that there are some 10,000 appellate opinions a week, meaning RECOP will put out roughly a half - million opinions every year.

That appellate opinion says Lexi seemed particularly interested in a relationship with her younger sister who lived with the Utah family.

The book is a «how - to» guide for drafting all types of documents common to trial and appellate courts, including bench memos, orders, findings of fact and conclusions of law, jury instructions, statements of reasons for imposing sentence, appellate opinions, correspondence, and speeches.