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"Skilling seeks wider review"

"Skilling seeks wider review": The Houston Chronicle today contains an article that begins, "Former Enron Chief Executive Jeff Skilling's lawyers have asked the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear his appeal arguments in light of a three-judge panel's decision earlier this month to uphold all 19 of his convictions."

Via WSJ.com's "Law Blog," you can access online both the petition for rehearing en banc and the petition for panel rehearing. The local rules of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allow a party to separately file each type of rehearing petition instead of requiring that they both be combined in a single pleading.

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 21, 2009 (boomark / email).