United States v. Nicholas Uccio

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that imposition on remand of previously rejected upward departure did not violate the mandate rule because the issue was left open on prior appeal
• confirming district court’s “discretion” whether to adhere to law of the case
• district court not barred from reconsidering a sentencing ruling, on remand, if its original ruling on the issue had not been before the appellate court
• “the trial court is barred from reconsidering or modifying any of its prior decisions that have been ruled on by the court of appeals.”
• “[W]hen a court has ruled on an issue, that decision should generally be adhered to by that court in subsequent stages in the same case.”
• “[W]hen a court has ruled on an issue, that decision should generally be adhered to by that court in subsequent stages in the same case ... absent ‘cogent’ or ‘compelling’ reasons.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).