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Latest News in Appellate

  • September 10, 2025

    Ga. Stroke Patient Seeks New Trial Over Misdiagnosis Claims

    A woman who says that an emergency room doctor at an Atlanta-area hospital failed to diagnose her stroke in time to save her from lifelong brain damage urged the Georgia Court of Appeals Wednesday to grant her a new trial, telling the court that "the record is absolutely silent" about the doctor's purported ordering of exams that might have turned the tide.

  • September 10, 2025

    6th Circ. Splits In Racial Bias Suit Over Hearsay Evidence

    A divided Sixth Circuit panel upheld an elevator manufacturer's defeat of a former employee's retaliation suit Wednesday, saying a human resources representative's secondhand statement about the reason for the employee's termination was correctly kept out of the case.

  • September 10, 2025

    Del. Justices Urged To Revive $10.5B Zendesk Deal Challenge

    An attorney for stockholders of software-as-a-service business Zendesk Inc. told Delaware's Supreme Court Wednesday that a conflict at the heart of a challenge to the company's $10.5 billion take-private deal with a private equity consortium was undisclosed at the time of its approval.

  • September 10, 2025

    State AGs Back Trans Worker In Liberty U.'s 4th Circ. Appeal

    A group of 19 states and Washington, D.C., urged the Fourth Circuit to back a trial court's decision to keep a former Liberty University employee's transgender bias case in court, arguing the religious university's interpretation of the First Amendment would decimate anti-discrimination efforts.

  • September 10, 2025

    Md. Appeals Court Says Psychoactive Hemp Wares Illegal

    A Maryland appeals court on Tuesday ruled that products containing psychoactive compounds derived from hemp are illegal, delivering a blow to a coalition of hemp interests that brought a constitutional challenge to the state's recreational marijuana legalization law.

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