Appellate Practice
May 5, 2020
No appeal for you!
Just as every dog has his day, every litigant — best in show, purebred, cur, or junkyard biter — can always exercise that right, right? Well, actually not. In exceptional cases, a litigant can so egregiously misbehave that the right to appeal can be lost. We’re talking here, of course, about the civil disentitlement doctrine.
Benjamin G. Shatz
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Appellate Law (Certified), Litigation
Email: bshatz@manatt.com
Benjamin is a certified specialist in appellate law who co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group at Manatt in the firm's Los Angeles office. Exceptionally Appealing appears the first Tuesday of the month.
The right to appeal is a cornerstone of our litigation process. The assumption in every case is that the losing party gets at least one appeal as a matter of right. And that universal right to appeal attaches regardless of who that party might be or what they might have done (before and during the litigation). Thus, whether a party is saintly, merely good, morally neutral, bad, or downright evil, there's always a right to appeal. Just as ...
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