If your big-dollar defense verdict goes the wrong way—the judge delivers a devastating result in your quiet title bench trial, or the other side just got declaratory judgment establishing your client’s widely advertised trademark is suddenly in the public domain—you’re probably going to want to seriously consider an appeal.
But you better think fast, because even though you usually get 30 or 60 days to file your notice of appeal in federal and California courts, respectively, your opponent can execute on her final judgment immediately in state court, and after only 14 days in federal court. Postjudgment motions can delay enforcement slightly, but unless your client is ready to throw in the towel and pay up, sign over the deed to her house or let any old Mickey Mouse operation use its Mickey Mouse logo, you’re going to need a formal appellate stay.
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