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"Relief from judgment" of a United States District Court is governed by Rule 60 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. [3] The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has noted that a vacated judgment "place[s] the parties in the position of no trial having taken place at all; thus a vacated judgment is of no further force or effect."
The rarely granted intervention permits the judge to exercise discretion to avoid extreme and unreasonable jury decisions. In civil cases in U.S. federal court, the term was replaced in 1991 by the renewed judgment as a matter of law , which emphasizes its relationship to the judgment as a matter of law , formerly called a directed verdict .
A remand may be a full remand, essentially ordering an entirely new trial; when an appellate court grants a full remand, the lower court's decision is "reversed and remanded." Alternatively, it may be "with instructions" specifying, for example, that the lower court must use a different legal standard when considering facts already entered at ...
The Wednesday decision is a win for litigious Wall Street firms and trade groups that challenge federal rules they say will increase their compliance costs and burden and eat into their profits.
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's overhaul of Treasury dealer rules adopted earlier this year, finding that the agency had overstepped ...
In the 41-page opinion, a three-judge panel from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the federal agency unfairly denied Kentucky’s plan for meeting the “Good Neighbor Provision” of the ...
A grant, vacate, remand (GVR) is a type of order issued by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court simultaneously grants a petition for certiorari, vacates the decision of the court below, and remands the case for further proceedings.
Lamar Johnson, 50, closed his eyes and shook his head slightly as a member of his legal team patted him on the back when Circuit Judge David Mason issued his ruling. In coming to his decision ...