The Federal Judicial Center has just posted the third edition of A Primer on the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals by Prof. Thomas Baker.
Law.com has Judiciary Seeks to Clarify Appellate Costs Rule After Supreme Court Ruling
An advisory committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States published the proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in a set of draft amendments last week. The committee will accept comments on the proposals until February.
Of concern to appellate lawyers, the draft amendments include tweaks to Rule 39 that seek to codify the Supreme Court’s decision in San Antonio v. Hotels.com, in which the justices unanimously held district courts cannot second-guess a court of appeals’ allocation of costs among the parties.
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