Covell v. Waterford Irr. Dist.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• permitting a 11 court to “depart from the law of the case” if “changed circumstances” exist
• “The law of the case doctrine provides that a court is generally precluded from reconsidering an issue that has already been decided by the same court … in the identical case.”
• district court may depart from law of case if first decision was clearly erroneous; if law, evidence, or other circumstances changed in meantime; or if applying law of case would work manifest injustice
• “The law of the case doctrine provides that ‘a court is generally precluded from reconsidering an issue that has already been decided by the same court, or a higher court in the identical case.’” (quoting United States v. Alexander, 106 F.3d 874, 876 (9th Cir. 1997))
• “The law of the case doctrine provides that ‘a court is generally precluded from reconsidering an issue that has already been decided by the same court, or a higher court in the identical case.’ ” (quoting United States v. Alexander, 106 F.3d 874, 876 (9th Cir. 1997))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).