| 25A820 |
Roxana Towry Russell v. Walmart Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Application |
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appellate-review copyright-infringement judicial-review rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm-precedent |
While she is continuing to evaluate, Ms. Russell currently expects to present several reasons for granting a writ. One is that the Ninth Circuit's dec… |
| 23-7359 |
Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
confidential-informant constitutional-rights due-process prison-management retaliation rule-50 state-actor transcript |
1. Can a prison confidential informant be described in all fairness as a state actor for retaliation when it resulted from the exercise of a right or … |
| 23-273 |
Southern-Owners Insurance Company v. American Builders Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-procedure insurance-coverage legal-issue preservation-of-issues rule-50 summary-judgment |
Whether a party must reassert in Rule 50 motions a purely legal issue resolved adversely at summary judgment to preserve the issue for appellate revie… |
| 22-211 |
Kelly Vandenberg v. University of Saint Thomas, aka University of St. Thomas (Houston) |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
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burden-of-proof civil-procedure employment-discrimination pretext pretext-standard prima-facie-case reeves-v-sanderson rule-50 rule-56 summary-judgment |
1. Do the exceptions in Reeves apply under Rule 56 identically as they do under Rule 50 when the Court prohibits judges from weighing evidence and det… |
| 21-577 |
Fredric N. Eshelman v. Puma Biotechnology, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure damages damages-challenge defamation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm unitherm-precedent |
Under Unitherm and the Federal Rules, can a defendant who did not file a Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law in the district court nonethel… |
| 20-1625 |
David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute |
The case involves issues regarding two whistleblower statutes, one federal and a California whistleblower statute. The California whistleblower retali… |
| 20-52 |
Yeitza Marie Aponte-Bermudez v. Eligio Colón, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-courts judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-evaluation jury-trial law-of-the-case rule-50 |
1. May a federal district court consistent with this
Court's "the law of the case" doctrine grant judgment asa
matter of law under Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(… |
| 19-149 |
Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to inc… |
| 18-1471 |
Christopher Hall v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
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anti-fraud appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 securities securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing |
Whether an appellate court has authority to consider challenges to issues of law raised in a pre-verdict Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(a) motion … |
| 18-1009 |
United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection |
The question presented is whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the … |