appeals

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An appeals court has rejected a California agency’s plan to issue bonds to pay for a proposed water tunnel in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

But if an appeals court in July bars the 57-year-old from public office over an alleged fake jobs scam in European Parliament, her lieutenant Jordan Bardella, 30, is expected to run in her place.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

It’s easy for casual scrollers to live in ignorance, but there remain many factors behind what really, viscerally appeals to the masses at any given moment.

From Slate • May 6, 2026

Activists may cast a reversal of the appeals court decision as a win for drug companies at patients’ expense.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

I didn't have a basic grasp of the complex appeals process that shaped death penalty litigation, a process that would in time become as familiar to me as the back of my hand.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson