Ambiguous Mistrial Record Cannot Overcome AEDPA Deference to a State Finding that the Defense Requested the Mistrial 1. Introduction In Stanford Williams v. Superintendent Fayette SCI (3d Cir. July...
Third Circuit: § 1983 Challenges to Family-Court Proceedings Fail Absent State Action and Overcoming Judicial/Sovereign Immunity; Official-Capacity Sovereign-Immunity Dismissals Must Be Without...
Express Testing-Method Specifications Control: “85% Fatty Acids GC” Does Not Imply an Additional Purity/Non‑Adulteration Warranty 1. Introduction In Jiaherb Inc v. MTC Industries Inc (3d Cir. July...
Online “Readily Available” Coverage Selection Forms and E-Signatures Satisfy New Jersey Coverage-Selection Requirements (Third Circuit, Nonprecedential) Case: Alemah McMillian v. Geico Indemnity Co....
Summary Affirmance When Appellant Omits Motion-to-Dismiss Materials and Video Evidence Needed for De Novo Review Introduction In Cooperstein v. Salt Lake City Corporation (10th Cir. July 24, 2026),...
Royce v. State Farm: Umbrella UIM Waiver Does Not Carry Forward to Later Coverage Increases Under the 1991 RSA 264:15, I Introduction In Royce v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 2026 N.H. 28 (N.H. July...
Michigan Rejects Oregon v Kennedy Under Const 1963, art 1, § 15 and Adopts Pool v Superior Court to Bar Retrial After Prosecutorial-Misconduct Mistrials Case: People of Michigan v. Devante Kyran...
Ordinance-Based Administrative Discretion Does Not Make a City Manager a “Public Body” Under Michigan’s Open Meetings Act I. Introduction Exclusive Capital Partners LLC v City of Royal Oak (Mich Sup...
Temporary Courthouse Buffer-Zone Appeals Become Moot Upon Trial’s End Absent a Non-Speculative Showing of Recurrence; Vacatur Limited to the Appealed Portion Case: Grant v. Trial Court of the...
“Described In” Means Conduct: Sixth Circuit Upholds State Drug Priors as Career-Offender Predicates After the End of Chevron I. Introduction In United States v. Cody Dewayne King (6th Cir. July 28,...
Victim Willingness Is Irrelevant to 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) Enticement; Chat Logs Alone Can Prove § 2251(a) Production Causation I. Introduction In United States v. Justin Carroll (6th Cir. July 28,...
Plea-Colloquy Admissions Control Rule 32(e): No “Fair and Just Reason” to Withdraw Guilty Plea Where Withdrawal Grounds Contradict the Record 1. Introduction Case: State of West Virginia v. Edward...
Harmless Legal Misstatements at Revocation: Factual Finding of Two-Week Cohabitation Establishes Tennessee Sex-Offender “Primary Residence” Non-Registration Case: United States v. Christopher Clough...
Guarantor Fee Liability Vacated Pending Determination Whether Contractual Attorneys’ Fees Are Part of Senior Secured Debt Subject to Intercreditor Priority Allocation 1. Introduction Mueller Brass...
Forfeiture of Niz-Chavez Notice-to-Appear Claims-Processing Objections Raised After IJ Proceedings 1. Introduction In Socorro Perez-Hernandez v. Todd W. Blanche, Acting U.S. Attorney General (6th...
Sixth Circuit Reaffirms the “Severe or Pervasive” Hostile-Environment Standard After Muldrow and Rejects § 504 Rehabilitation Act Retaliation Case: Tara Miller v. VA, No. 25-1544 (6th Cir. July 27,...
Medicare Hospice Safe Harbor Requires a Claim-Specific “Reasonable Interpretation” Inquiry, Not Mere Imputed Knowledge of CMS Notices Case: In Home Health, LLC v. Robert Kennedy, Jr. (6th Cir. July...
State v. Holley: Appellate Courts Must Not Dismiss Manner-of-Service Appeals for Missing Guilty Plea Transcripts Without Case-by-Case Sufficiency Review and Party Notice 1. Introduction In State of...
Younger Abstention Bars Federal Injunctions Against Ongoing State Contempt Orders in Domestic-Relations Cases; Nonfinal Monell Dismissals Are Not Appealable Without Rule 54(b) 1. Introduction Case:...
Settlement Releases Waive Only Vicarious “Pass-Through” Claims—Independent Inspection-Duty Claims Against a Non-Settling Party Survive Case: Bizzack Constr., LLC v. TRC Eng'rs, Inc. (6th Cir. July...