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Law Practice,
Civil Litigation,
Appellate Practice

Nov. 2, 2021

Memo-dispo No-no

Apart from the substantive law, there’s a valuable lesson in a recent 9th Circuit ruling about citing unpublished decisions.

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.

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Unless you have an intense interest in how parking tickets are handled in Portland, Oregon, you probably missed Grimm v. City of Portland, 971 F.3d 1060 (9th Cir. 2020). Actually, it turns out that Portland's mobilephone parking app, called Parking Kitty, raised some pretty interesting constitutional issues. Hence a serious 9th U.S. ...

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