U.S. Courts of Appeals
From the Badlands to the Ozarks, the states in this Circuit have plenty to see—if you can resist flying over them.
What is the 8th Circuit?
This term refers to an involuntary lien imposed by law to secure payment for services or materials that improve real or personal property.
What is a mechanic’s lien?
This statute provides a cause of action in strict liability against an owner or keeper of a dog if the dog does damage to a person’s body or property.
What is C.G.S. § 22-357?
This decision was recently reversed because it was premised upon “an abuse of judicial authority.”
What is Roe v. Wade?
This document may be used at trial under Code of Evidence § 9-3A to authenticate business records.
What is a sworn certification?
Not to be confused with its “British” neighbor, this U.S. territory is in the 3rd Circuit.
What are the U.S. Virgin Islands?
This type of lien takes priority over all other liens, is often filed by government, and is, with limited exception, non-dischargeable in bankruptcy?
What is a tax lien?
This statute codifies CUTPA, the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practice Act, which prohibits and establishes remedies for unfair and deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce.
What is C.G.S. § 42-110a (or §§ 42-110a – 42-110q)?
The Plaintiff in 303 Creative v. Elenis owned this type of business.
What is website design?
When you want to impeach a witness in state court, you can now use this instead of ripping open the envelope of a paper original deposition transcript.
What is an electronic transcript with a court reporter’s watermark? [Practice Book § 13-30(e)]
Justice Neil Gorsuch is the assigned justice for emergency requests from this circuit—where he previously sat as a judge.
What is the 10th Circuit?
This “compressive and reticulated” federal law enacted in 1974 allows certain health plans to preempt state law and create an “equitable lien by agreement.”
What is ERISA (the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)?
This statute provides a cause of action against cities and towns for injury to person or property by means of a defective road or bridge.
What is C.G.S. § 13a-149?
This recent U.S. Supreme Court decision removed affirmative action from the college admissions process.
What is Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College?
Proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 106 permits you to introduce this, even over a hearsay objection.
What is the remainder of a related statement?
When it comes to football, Ole Miss and the Crimson Tide play together in the SEC, but as federal litigants, they would play apart in these two different circuits.
What are the 5th and 11th circuits?
This Connecticut common-law equitable possessory lien attaches to all papers and files that the attorney holds to secure payment of fees for professional services.
What is a retaining lien?
This statute provides a cause of action against the State by any person injured through the negligence of any State official or employee when operating a motor vehicle owned and insured by the State.
What is C.G.S. § 52-556?
This recent US Supreme Court Decision determined that the Indian Child Welfare Act does not exceed Congress’s power under Article I to legislate with respect to Indian affairs and permits courts to apply hierarchical placement preferences for custody proceedings involving Indian Children.
What is Haaland v. Brackeen?
Code of Evidence § 7-3 allows a lay person to give an opinion that embraces the ultimate issue about this.
What is identification of people in video recordings and photographs?
This Circuit is unique among the courts of appeals in that its jurisdiction is based wholly upon subject matter, not geographic location.
What is the Federal Circuit?
This court order imposes a foreclosable lien in favor of a judgment creditor against a judgment debtor’s distributional interest in an LLC or partnership.
What is a charging order?
This statute provides a cause of action for loss of consortium by one spouse with respect to the death of the other spouse.
What is C.G.S. § 52-555a?
These Justices dissented in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Who are Justices Sotomayor, Jackson and Kagan?
You probably can’t be impeached by a felony conviction in state court if you have one of these.
What is an absolute pardon? [General Statutes § 54-142a]