Fifth Circuit Civil Appellate Update
09/01/2011
As seen in The Appellate Advocate, State Bar of Texas Appellate Section Report, Fall 2011, Vol. 24, No. 1.
Topics include:
- Appellate Jurisdiction - Final Judgments
- Arbitration - Agency Principles
- Bankruptcy Law - Judicial Estoppel
- Bankruptcy Law - Reorganization Plans and Confirmation Orders
- Bankruptcy - Reservation of Claims
- Civil Proceduere - The Erie Doctrine
- Constitutional Law - Race-Conscious Admissions
- Due Process - First Amendment
- ERISA
- False Claims Act - Public Disclosure Bar
- Jurisdiction
- Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
- Sovereign Immunity - Claims Against the Judicial Council of the Fifth Circuit
- Stay of Proceedings - Related State and Federal Court Litigation
- The Jury Charge - Reconciling Finding
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