{"id":901323,"date":"2023-06-21T16:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T22:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=901323"},"modified":"2023-06-21T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T22:35:55","slug":"perservation-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/perservation-maze\/","title":{"rendered":"The Preservation Maze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sofya Uvaydov | <a href=\"https:\/\/kahanafeld.com\/2023\/06\/06\/the-preservation-maze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Appellate Strategy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To appropriately preserve an issue for appeal is frankly confusing to many attorneys due to differing rules depending on the issue or procedural posture (presumably why appellate attorneys are more commonly used during trial). On May 25th, the US Supreme Court handed down&nbsp;<em>Dupree v. Younger<\/em>, 598 U.S. __ (2023) clarifying preservation requirements from denied summary judgment orders. When a federal court denies summary judgment on sufficiency of evidence grounds, a party must raise the argument again post-trial to preserve it for appeal as per the Court\u2019s prior ruling in&nbsp;<em>Ortiz v. Jordan<\/em>, 562 U.S. 180 (2011). When a court denies summary&nbsp;judgment on a purely legal issue, the Court unanimously held that the issue is preserved in an appeal from a final judgment without having to raise it again post-trial. The Supreme Court distinguished this from their prior rule in&nbsp;<em>Ortiz<\/em>&nbsp;by explaining that sufficiency or factual issues which were previously denied at summary judgment must be evaluated based on the totality of the evidence adduced at trial. A purely legal issue decided on summary judgment is not changed by factual evidence at trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Practically speaking, however, some issues are mixed questions of law and fact or fall in the grey area, so how can trial counsel be certain that their issue is preserved? As the Court acknowledged, \u201cprudent counsel\u201d might \u201crenew their arguments in a Rule 50 motion out of an abundance of caution\u201d. Notably, even while clarifying the dual standard, the Court\u00a0still remanded the case back down to the Circuit to evaluate if Younger\u2019s denial was on a purely legal issue. Prudent counsel likely does not want to waste their time briefing whether something was preserved and whether it was denial of a purely legal issue. As such, while\u00a0<em>Dupree<\/em>\u00a0might help the \u201cunwary\u201d litigant, to avoid any doubt, we continue to encourage counsel to renew their arguments post-trial to protect their clients and obviate the need for wading into this thorny issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/design-build-contract-blueprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preservation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When one of your cases is in need of a construction expert, estimates, insurance appraisal or umpire services in defect or insurance disputes &#8211; please call Advise &amp; Consult, Inc. at 888.684.8305, or email <a href=\"mailto:experts@adviseandconsult.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">experts@adviseandconsult.net<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofya Uvaydov | Appellate Strategy To appropriately preserve an issue for appeal is frankly confusing to many attorneys due to differing rules depending on the issue or procedural posture (presumably why appellate attorneys are more commonly used during trial). On May 25th, the US Supreme Court handed down&nbsp;Dupree v. Younger, 598 U.S. __ (2023) clarifying&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/perservation-maze\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Preservation Maze<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[9895,11912],"class_list":["post-901323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-defects","tag-advise-consult","tag-preservation","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Preservation Maze - Advise &amp; 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