Kelley v. Everglades District

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  1. Fifth Circuit Gets Out of the Implied Findings Business

    Jackson WalkerLionel SchoolerApril 17, 2019

    The United States Supreme Court stated in 1943 that Rule 52(a) requires district courts to render findings of fact “in such detail and exactness as the nature of the case permits, of subsidiary facts on which the ultimate conclusion can rationally be predicated.” Kelley v. Everglades Draining Dist., 319 U.S. 415, 420 (1943). The Kelley Court also counseled that a reviewing court was not obliged to “search the record and analyze the evidence in order to supply findings which the trial court failed to make.”