Skip to main content
Federal & State Lawfederalstatelaw.com
Home/Federal/Cases
Eleventh Circuit· 3/18/1985

Piambino v. Bailey

Citations

  • 757 F.2d 1112
  • 1 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1159
  • 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 28917

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that where a prior appellate panel had considered a particular party’s intervention, and ordered that the party be allowed to intervene, it had “necessarily implied” that any procedural noncompliance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24 (which governs intervention
  • concluding that district court violated the mandate rule, and stating that “[although our opinion did not explicitly address [certain] procedural requirements ..., its command ... necessarily implied that any procedural noncompliance ... was inconsequential”
  • stating this Court has the “power to supervise the district courts” in a “wide variety of situations,” including in formulating rules of civil litigation, in order to “ensure that the judicial process remains a fair one”
  • “The ‘mandate rule,’ as it is known, is nothing more than a specific application of the ‘law of the case’ doctrine.”
  • “The trial court must implement both the letter and the spirit of the mandate, taking into account the appellate court’s opinion, and the circumstances it embraces.” (citations omitted)
  • “Despite the wide variety of situations in which supervisory power has been invoked, the objective behind its use – fashioning procedures and remedies that ensure that the judicial process remains a fair one – has not varied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Read full opinion on CourtListener

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

67 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases with this name

Sourced from CourtListener / Free Law Project (CC0).

This is legal information, not legal advice. Laws vary by jurisdiction and change frequently. Always verify current law with official sources and consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for advice on your specific situation.