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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