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Appellate Jurisdiction And The Emoluments Litigation, Adam N. Steinman
Appellate Jurisdiction And The Emoluments Litigation, Adam N. Steinman
Akron Law Review
This article—part of a symposium on federal appellate procedure—addresses questions of appellate jurisdiction that have played an important role in litigation challenging Donald Trump’s conduct under the Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses. When federal trial judges in the District of Columbia and Maryland rejected Trump’s early attempts to dismiss two of these cases, Trump sought immediate relief from the federal courts of appeals rather than allowing the litigation to proceed in the district courts. The lack of a traditional final judgment, however, prompted difficult jurisdictional issues for the D.C. Circuit and the Fourth Circuit.
In both cases, the relationship between appellate mandamus …