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Latest News in Appellate

  • February 09, 2026

    Frontier Airlines To Face Racial Bias Suit On 9th Circ. Remand

    The Ninth Circuit on Monday largely revived a racial bias lawsuit against Frontier Airlines, saying in an unpublished opinion that a jury could possibly find for the father-and-son passengers based on the case's facts.

  • February 09, 2026

    6th Circ. Revives Drexel's Herbicide Contract Beef With Gowan

    The Sixth Circuit on Monday held that a Tennessee federal court misinterpreted a profit-sharing agreement resolving an herbicide product registration dispute between Drexel Chemical Co. and Gowan Co. LLC, siding with Drexel on when the agreement terminated and reviving Drexel's suit over it.

  • February 09, 2026

    Feds Want Bannon's Contempt-Of-Congress Conviction Axed

    Federal prosecutors on Monday moved to toss former White House adviser Steve Bannon's contempt-of-Congress conviction before a trial court, spurring the U.S. solicitor general to similarly ask the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a D.C. Circuit judgment, which had rejected Bannon's advice-of-counsel defense and affirmed his conviction.

  • February 09, 2026

    9th Circ. Judge Casts Doubt On Feds' Grant Condition Stance

    A Ninth Circuit judge expressed skepticism Monday as the Trump administration argued it could legally impose new rules barring federal grant recipients from using the money for diversity programming, suggesting that the government had misread Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

  • February 09, 2026

    Fed. Circ. Mulls Whether Digital Ad Patent Can Survive Alice

    An advertising management system company tried to persuade the Federal Circuit on Monday to revive its infringement suit against Google and YouTube, saying its patent was wrongly found to cover an abstract idea.

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