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A vacated judgment is usually the result of the judgment of an appellate court, which overturns, reverses, or sets aside the judgment of a lower court. An appellate court may also vacate its own decisions. Rules of procedure may allow vacatur either at the request of a party (a motion to vacate) or sua sponte (at the court's initiative). [1]
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 ...
In light of this, on June 27, the Supreme Court granted Limon's petition, vacated the ruling of the Kansas Court of Appeals, and remanded the case for further consideration. After the Court of Appeals again upheld the law, the Kansas Supreme Court agreed to hear the case and unanimously struck down the part of the law excluding same-sex sexual ...
The high court's decision reverses a 4-1 ruling Aug. 30 by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, which said that the current law, Act 77 of 2019, violates the fundamental right to vote under the ...
By Jim Salter BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court was asked to halt the execution Wednesday of a convicted killer in Missouri after a federal appeals court ruled the lethal injection ...
An exception exists when this situation arises in one of the now-rare cases brought directly to the Supreme Court on appeal from a United States District Court; in this situation, the case is referred to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the corresponding circuit for a final decision there by either the Court of Appeals sitting en banc, or a panel ...
The U.S. Supreme Court issued several major decisions over the course of 2024. Its rulings include those that have pushed back on the Biden administration's attempted change of Title IX ...
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), abbreviated NYSRPA v. Bruen and also known as NYSRPA II or Bruen to distinguish it from the 2020 case, is a landmark decision [1] [2] [3] of the United States Supreme Court related to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.