United States v. Martin J. Cote Patricia S. Caldwell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the law of the case doctrine only applies “when the issue in question was actually considered and decided”
• emphasizing that “a district 5 court could not revisit its already final determinations unless the mandate allowed it”
• noting that the issue 6 || in question must have been “actually considered and decided by the first court” for the doctrine to apply
• stating that the rule of mandate prevents a court from “revisiting] its already final determinations unless the mandate allowed it”
• noting 16 that a district court must still consider and decide matters left open by the mandate
• “[T]he law of the case acts as a bar only when the issue in question was actually considered and decided by the first court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).