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Latest News in Appellate

  • October 29, 2026

    9th Circ. Revives Tequila-Maker's TM Fight With Sutter Home

    The Ninth Circuit on Thursday reversed a ruling that blocked Roar Spirits LLC from registering two El Bandido Yankee tequila trademarks, holding that a reasonable factfinder could conclude that differences between El Bandido Yankee and Sutter Home Winery's Bandit boxed wine trademark make it unlikely consumers would confuse the brands.

  • October 29, 2026

    Texas Court Backs Mom's Consent To Search Son's Room

    The highest criminal court in Texas ruled Thursday that law enforcement were justified in believing they could search a man's bedroom without violating his Fourth Amendment rights because he lived at home with his mother, and she granted police access to search her entire home. 

  • October 29, 2026

    Utah Officials Say 10th Circ. Rightly Revived Psilocybin Case

    County and local officials in Provo City, Utah, urged the Tenth Circuit not to give a religious group a second chance at arguing that it shouldn't be prosecuted for using psilocybin in its practices, slamming the church's arguments as "overblown."

  • October 29, 2026

    WTA Appeals Ruling Keeping Tennis Antitrust Suit Alive

    The corporate and commercial entity that operates the Women's Tennis Association said Wednesday it will file an interlocutory appeal challenging a New York federal judge's ruling last month denying its bid to force antitrust claims brought by tennis players into arbitration.

  • October 29, 2026

    Colo. Justices Won't Review Hospital's Injunction Compliance

    The Colorado Supreme Court declined Thursday to take up transgender youth patients' challenge to a Denver judge's ruling that discharged their contempt citation against Children's Hospital Colorado for not resuming providing medical gender-affirming care to transgender adolescents.

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