The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is considering a rule to allow parties to ask the court to issue decisions by a certain date, even if the case doesn’t qualify as an “emergency.”
Under the proposal, posted on the circuit’s website on Friday, parties can certify that “action is necessary by a date certain.” The filing “must clearly state the date for action and provide a justification for why such action is needed.”
Under the current rules, parties can seek emergency relief if there’s “an emergency sufficient to justify disruption of the normal appellate process.” In ...
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