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Appellate
Appellate Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on appellate law. Coverage includes major cases in the federal courts of appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court, and state-level appeals courts, with a focus on petitions, briefs, oral arguments, decisions, and other major activity.
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Latest News in Appellate
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February 13, 2026
Dell Unit Holds Onto $4M In Fees In Patent Case At Fed. Circ.
The Federal Circuit on Friday upheld a Massachusetts federal judge's ruling that a patent infringement case brought against a Dell unit was exceptional, a finding that resulted in the unit being awarded a little over $4 million in attorney fees.
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February 13, 2026
Big Tech Loses Fintiv APA Challenge At Fed. Circ.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office precedent allowing Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions to be denied based on the timing of related litigation falls well within the director's discretionary authority, the Federal Circuit said Friday in rejecting an appeal from Apple, Cisco, Google and Intel.
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February 13, 2026
Food Distributor To Take Arb. Pacts Ruling To Supreme Court
A food service business told a Connecticut district court it plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up two distributors' misclassification case, asking the lower court to pause litigation after the Second Circuit ruled that the workers could dodge arbitration.
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February 13, 2026
Bisexual Worker Can't Revive Harassment Suit At 6th Circ.
The Sixth Circuit declined to reinstate a bisexual construction worker's harassment suit alleging that his coworkers called him homophobic slurs on the job, ruling the company can't be held liable because it responded swiftly when he took his complaints to human resources.
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February 13, 2026
7th Circ. Wary To Infer American Airlines Uniforms Were Toxic
A Seventh Circuit panel on Friday appeared skeptical of American Airlines workers' argument that it had provided sufficient evidence to infer toxic employee uniforms caused their skin rashes and other symptoms, with one judge suggesting such a broad reading of Illinois law and federal tort doctrine would allow plaintiffs to say "to heck with the experts."
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