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All parties must present grounds to appeal, or it will not be heard. By convention in some law reports, the appellant is named first. This can mean that where it is the defendant who appeals, the name of the case in the law reports reverses (in some cases twice) as the appeals work their way up the court hierarchy. This is not always true, however.
That is, one of the parties in the case could appeal a decision of a court of appeals to the Supreme Court, and it had to accept the case. The right of automatic appeal for most types of decisions of a court of appeals was ended by an Act of Congress, the Judiciary Act of 1925, which also reorganized many other things in the federal court system.
An exception exists when this situation arises in one of the now-rare cases brought directly to the Supreme Court on appeal from a United States District Court; in this situation, the case is referred to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the corresponding circuit for a final decision there by either the Court of Appeals sitting en banc, or a panel ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit denied a request from Walt Nauta, an aide to Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, the former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, who were charged with ...
The court did not dismiss the indictment, saying in its opinion issued Thursday: "While this is the rare case in which DA Willis and her office must be disqualified due to a significant appearance ...
The court sits from time to time in locations other than Washington, and its judges can and do sit by designation on the benches of other courts of appeals and federal district courts. As of 2016 [update] , Washington and Lee University School of Law's Millhiser Moot Courtroom had been designated as the continuity of operations site for the court.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to reconsider a decision that said incorrectly dated or undated ballots must be invalidated in Pennsylvania, even if the ballots are received in time.
If the Supreme Court of the United States has not ruled on a legal issue, federal courts of appeals resolve these issues "as they see fit, subject only to a norm of intracircuit stare decisis." [ 13 ] When a circuit split occurs, there is rarely an even numeric division among courts of appeals with regard to how the dispute should be resolved ...