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Using data from punitive damages decisions of U.S. federal circuit courts from 2004 to 2012, this paper attempts to establish empirically the following: (1) there is no apparent statistical difference between the levels of jury and judge awards; (2) U.S. Supreme Court decisions such as ...
In the United States federal court system, 13 appellate courts – or courts that deal with appeals – sit below the United States Supreme Court. These are known as the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Among 94 federal judicial districts, 12 regional circuits each feature their own court of appeals....
The results of these cases are mixed: There have been some federal circuits that have admitted polygraph results, while others have flatly denied them. Here are just a few of the legal cases that have shaped how polygraphs are viewed by the U.S. courts: Frye v. United States (1923) -...
In a long-awaited and highly publicized opinion in March of 2018, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided the case of ACA International v. FCC, which addressed the FCC's 2015 Declaratory Ruling and Order interpreting various provisions of the T
And the case was coming out of the Ninth Circuit, an appellate court that SCOTUS notoriously loves to reverse. The Supreme Court, too, is just a different animal altogether. Theoretically, SCOTUS is only a notch above the federal appeals courts. But that single ladder rung separates the ...
Even in the earliest days of telephones and telegraphs, people were concerned about wiretapping. In the 1860s, before the modern telephone was even invented, many state courts in the United States enacted statutes that prohibited anybody from listening in ontelegraph communication. By the 1890s,...
Corporate rules are often analysed without attending to the strengths and limitations of the body making, monitoring or implementing those rules. However,
party has the right to appeal to the next highest tribunal. In California, for example, superior courts are trial courts, and appeal is taken to the Court of Appeals. In federal courts, you can appeal a decision of the trial court, called the district court, to theCircuit Courtof Appeals...
On appeal, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the District Court; the Sixth Circuit used a deferential standard of review and considered it a conflict of interest that MetLife determined an employee’s eligibility for benefits and paid the benefits out of its pocket. Based on a combinat...