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Dec. 30, 2025

Daily Appellate Report: Our experts pick the year's most impactful and intriguing decisions

The Daily Journal's in-house team of attorneys review and brief hundreds of appellate decisions each year for publication in the Daily Appellate Report. Here's what stood out.

Daily Appellate Report: Our experts pick the year's most impactful and intriguing decisions
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The Daily Journal's in-house team of attorneys review and brief hundreds of appellate decisions each year for publication in the Daily Appellate Report. This year, we asked them to select opinions they wrote about that they found most interesting or impactful -- and to explain why it stood out. Here's what they had to say.

Lake v. Gates (In re: Dershowitz...