21.   A three-judge appeals panel this week overturned Moran.

22.   A scheduled argument for next Tuesday in St. Paul before an appeals court panel has served as a kind of deadline driving the negotiations.

23.   A WTO appeals panel upheld an earlier ruling that U.S. regulations covering imports of reformulated gasoline favored domestic producers and held foreign importers to a higher environmental standard.

24.   A three-judge appeal panel heard the case in February.

25.   A U.S. district court judge ruled for the city but an incredulous appeals court panel found for Atwater.

26.   A trial judge sided with Spear, Leeds, but a divided three-judge appeals panel said the claims do qualify for arbitration.

27.   A three-judge appeals panel again turned thumbs down.

28.   A three-judge federal appeals court panel must appoint the independent counsel.

29.   Advocates for terminally ill people urged a federal appeals panel Friday to strike down a New York state law that prohibits doctors from helping dying patients commit suicide.

30.   But a federal appeals court panel overruled that decision Thursday.