May 25, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday held litigants can appeal purely legal issues they lost at the summary judgment stage without going through the technicality of raising them again after trial, vacating a Fourth Circuit decision.
April 24, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court justices appear poised to reverse a minority of circuits that require legal arguments raised at the summary judgment stage to be reasserted after trial to be preserved for appeal, after oral arguments Monday that delved into nuances of trial practice.
April 21, 2023
In its final week of arguments this term, the U.S. Supreme Court will tackle an appellate procedural issue that it has passed over nearly a dozen times before.