Whether federal district courts possess the authority to require appeal rights to be waived as a condition for receiving an award available under law.

a. What are the elemental requirements for an enforceable waiver of the right to appellate review in federal proceedings?

b. Whether assent to a forfeiture of appeal rights may be implied from mere acquiescence to a district court's order.

c. Whether express and knowing consent to a forfeiture of appeal rights must be established either through a valid written instrument or in open court.

d. Whether the scope of implied or involuntary waivers of appeal rights must be narrowly construed against the forfeiture under federal law.

e. Whether there is an enforceable, implied guarantee in an otherwise valid waiver of appeal rights that the federal court will still abide by its own rulings in the case as well as basic principles of due process.

Whether federal courts can require waiver of appeal rights as a condition for receiving an award