Court of Appeals Review of Discretion

The Court of Appeals reviews lower court decisions mainly on preserved issues and only overturns discretionary rulings if there’s an abuse of discretion as a matter of law. It limits its review to ...

At the Supreme Court, a Stark Drop in Appeals From the Poor

Appeals from indigent defendants have fallen precipitously in recent years. Experts aren’t sure what’s behind the "really ...
JD Supra

Beyond the Verdict: What Every Litigant Should Know About the Appellate Process

The trial is over. The jury has spoken – or the judge has ruled – and the outcome wasn’t what you hoped. Now what? At that moment, many litigants turn to the idea of an appeal as a second chance, a do ...
The National Law Review

Hunton Expands National Appellate Team with Ryan Clinton in Texas

AUSTIN, TEXAS, Sept. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ryan Clinton, a nationally recognized appellate lawyer who formerly served as an assistant solicitor general for the state of Texas and has extensive ...
JD Supra

Where Appeals Begin

I remember listening to Justice Frank Cleckley of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, my professor for Evidence, open his first lecture with a discussion of Federal Rule of Evidence 103. As a ...
Case Western Reserve University

Highlighting the Appellate Practice Program

The inaugural LLEAP 3 Appellate Practice course is well underway with second-year students completing appellate briefs and preparing for oral arguments in a problem involving Fourth Amendment privacy ...