Nigel Richardson v. United States

Whether the Eleventh Circuit’s recent iteration of its “prior panel precedent rule”—which requires rigid adherence to prior circuit precedent, even if the prior precedent indisputably did not apply a new “mode of analysis” dictated by an intervening decision of this Court—contravenes well settled principles of vertical stare decisis, and denies Eleventh Circuit defendants their statutory right to appeal and due process of law, in conflict with the approach of other circuits.