Complex Litigation Corner

Because exceptionally few cases ever result in U.S. Supreme Court review, we're accustomed to thinking that a ruling from one of the 12 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals is, for all practical purposes, the final say on the law.And while we're all familiar with splits between the various circuits, at least in cases giving rise to a circuit split, the litigants in a given case receive the benefit of their own circuit …