Finally, has the Tenth Circuit's local rule caused you to spend more or less time preparing «unpublished» opinions than you previously spent, and has the rule caused your court to treat
its unpublished opinions as precedent?
M.J. wonders what she should do when she encounters such attorneys improperly citing
unpublished opinions as authority.
Parties should be free to cite
unpublished opinions as persuasive, while not binding upon the court.
Prohibiting the citation to
unpublished opinions as persuasive authority under the no - citation rule is contrary to the conflicting judicial notice statute.
Not exact matches
As Lyon puts it, claims «are based on any kind of document — whether it's an
unpublished technical manual, an
opinion piece, or an editorial.
In a recent interview,
as yet
unpublished, I was asked: I've seen some instances where you have been called a «denier» when it comes to climate change, I am just curious
as to your
opinion on that?
In an
unpublished opinion by the California Court of Appeals last week, the court held that the alibi offered by a criminal defendant — that he was playing poker on MySpace at the time of the crime — was neither «implausible or bizarre,»
as argued by prosecutors.
A recent
unpublished opinion Court of Appeals
opinion, Herring - Wilson v. Wilson, highlights a common fallacy in valuing small personal services businesses for purposes of equitable distribution: treating personal goodwill
as marital property.
Bloomberg says that it has extracted more than one million Points of Law from its database of 13 million published and
unpublished state and federal court
opinions, and that these Points of Law are being continually updated
as new cases are added.
It should come
as no surprise that researchers may find that there are more
unpublished than published
opinions interpreting a particular area of law.
While the non-citation rule prohibits citation to any
unpublished opinion, judicial notice pursuant to California Evidence Code section 452 (d)(1) may be made
as to the «[r] ecords of any court of this state...» On its face, this statute allows judicial notice of any
opinion of the Court of Appeal
as a record of a court of this state.
As such, judicial notice should be granted as to unpublished opinion
As such, judicial notice should be granted
as to unpublished opinion
as to
unpublished opinions.
In this conflict, the judicial notice statute should take precedence, and courts should allow
unpublished opinions to be cited
as persuasive authority.
This decision has now forced the hand of the Fourth Circuit to vacate and remand in an
unpublished per curiam
opinion the Washington Redskins» appeal of the district court decision to uphold the PTO's cancellation of its six trademark registrations
as disparaging to Native Americans.
While I've been critical of these sorts of
unpublished opinions, I still don't cite them
as authority in other cases.
This Comment joins other work in arguing that the legitimacy of stare decisis depends upon widespread publication.4 The doctrine of stare decisis itself emerged only with the consistent and reliable publication of court
opinions, 5 and legal processes that do not result in the issuance of publicly available
opinions, such
as settlements and arbitrations, generally lack stare decisis norms altogether.6 Although previous scholarship has discussed the proper role of stare decisis in the context of «
unpublished»
opinions, 7 which make up around eighty percent of all United States courts of appeals
opinions8 (and are usually publicly available despite their name), 9 this Comment provides the first examination of the tenability of stare decisis
as applied to truly secret
opinions like those of the FISC.
Where do you stand on the question of allowing citation to «
unpublished»
opinions; do you believe that federal appellate court panels should be able to designate some of their rulings
as «non-precedential» upon issuance, or should the precedential value of an
opinion be left to later panels to determine; and why?
Had the Anastasoff case not become moot before the en banc Eighth Circuit could reach the merits, was it your prediction that the en banc court would have agreed with you the local rule declaring
unpublished opinions non-precedential should be abolished, and why has the Eighth Circuit not repealed, via the rulemaking process, the rule your panel
opinion condemned
as unconstitutional?
I don't like the idea of allowing
unpublished opinions to be cited, which is another way of saying that I think courts should be permitted to designate some of their decisions
as nonprecedential and therefore not worth citing.