/appellate?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Appellate Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Thu, 03 Jul 2025 21:25:41 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361189?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361189 Ford Motor Co. cannot force drivers who allege defects in their Focus and Fiesta vehicles to take their claims to arbitration, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting the automaker's argument that the dispute flows from dealership sales contracts containing arbitration provisions that it can invoke. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 21:13:09 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361087?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361087 The Eighth Circuit on Thursday erased a $3.95 million judgment against Canadian Pacific Railway over crude oil spilled in a derailment disaster that killed dozens of people and nearly destroyed a Canadian town center, saying a lower court ignored a judgment reduction provision in a negligent train operator's bankruptcy plan. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 21:07:03 +0000 /appellate/articles/2359908?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2359908 A New Jersey appellate panel has upheld the state Turnpike Authority's rejection of a towing company's protest of its denied prequalification application to provide towing services, saying it was neither arbitrary, capricious nor unreasonable. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:53:30 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361100?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361100 A Florida state appeals court panel on Thursday ruled that a man convicted on two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition can have the lesser charge dropped after the panel found it violated double jeopardy rules. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:53:20 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361161?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361161 Efficient Power Conversion is appealing acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart's rejection of its request that she apply new policies on when Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions should be denied to a decision that invalidated its microchip patent. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:29:17 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361052?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361052 A Seventh Circuit panel reduced a $51.6 million fee award for class counsel who took on alleged price-fixing among the country's biggest producers of broiler chickens to about $47 million Wednesday, saying the district court made one easily-correctable error. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:22:45 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361155 Experian can arbitrate a customer's lawsuit alleging it failed to reasonably ensure the accuracy of her credit files after a fraudulent $26,922 car loan was reported, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Thursday, finding Experian provided competent, unrebutted evidence of her agreement to arbitrate after enrolling in credit-monitoring services with its affiliate.  Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:13:30 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361019?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361019 The acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office found Wednesday that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly terminated network equipment maker Zyxel's challenge to a University of New Mexico wireless communications patent without considering a remand from the Federal Circuit. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:50:25 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361057?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361057 Texas trucking companies and an injured driver have settled a nearly decade-old negligence lawsuit, ending a case that initially resulted in an $80 million verdict — later reduced to $13.7 million — but was dramatically reshaped by intervention by the state's highest court.  Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:24:16 +0000 /appellate/articles/2360699?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2360699 A group of youths is asking the Ninth Circuit to revive its lawsuit alleging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget are violating the youngsters' constitutional rights by not properly protecting them from climate change. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:24:12 +0000 /appellate/articles/2360585?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2360585 The steep funding cut that Republicans have passed for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could strengthen the Trump administration's position in its court fight to resume downsizing the agency, even if it doesn't directly resolve the legal questions at play. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:08:32 +0000 /appellate/articles/2357536?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2357536 The first half of 2025 saw the U.S. Supreme Court impose limitations on water permit requirements, as well as key decisions in lower courts in climate change and environmental justice cases. Here, Law360 takes a look at some of the biggest environmental law rulings of 2025. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:07:59 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361060?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361060 The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed summary judgment for Accenture LLP in a Black former manager's suit alleging he was fired for complaining about racial discrimination, but noted that its finding is based on "the record and binding case law, not blindness to the reality [he] presses — that bias affected aspects of his work experience." Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:04:10 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361090?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361090 Two former wrestlers, including an Olympic medalist, and a former walk-on football player have joined the list of college athletes announcing plans to appeal the $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement with the NCAA, arguing that they are receiving far too small a portion of the compensation package. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:52:09 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361199?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361199 Netflix's streaming services in Colorado are tangible personal property subject to sales tax, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, reversing a district court's finding that the subscriptions were not taxable under state law because they were not tangible physical items. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:25:42 +0000 /appellate/articles/2360978?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2360978 SPEX Technologies Inc. will appeal a federal judge's decision to cut its $553 million verdict against Western Digital for data security patent infringement to $1 along with all other adverse rulings in the case. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:12:40 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361055?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361055 A New Jersey appellate panel declined to expand the principles of sidewalk liability for commercial properties to a residential property that was unoccupied and undergoing renovations on Thursday, backing a lower court ruling that held the property was not used for investment nor to generate a profit. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:55:41 +0000 /appellate/articles/2360513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2360513 A Florida state appeals court has sided with a Nevada-based lender, reversing an oral agreement to reduce interest on a $2.6 million loan from 25% to 7%, saying such agreements must be in writing. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:50:17 +0000 /appellate/articles/2361149?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2361149 A D.C. Circuit panel stayed an order Thursday reinstating a fired member of a panel that decides federal agencies' union disputes in line with a U.S. Supreme Court order freezing out two fired leaders of other labor agencies. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:46:19 +0000 /appellate/articles/2360979?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /appellate/articles/2360979 The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors, is fairly limited in scope and closely tailored to the specific language of Tennessee's law, but it may have implications for challenges to similar laws in other states, say attorneys at Hall Render.