Patently O
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Stare decisis, Latin for “to stand by things decided,” is a legal principle that directs courts to adhere to previous judgments, i.e., precedent, when resolving a case with comparable facts. the Federal Circuit applied stare decisis to a prior validity ruling involving a different patent and a different accused infringer.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. Andrus further argues that the Texas court’s decision conflicts with “vertical stare decisis,” the principle that lower courts must follow the Supreme Court’s decisions.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
In the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered at least three decisions on foreign choice of court agreements. [1] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2] 1] Kashamu v UBN Plc (2020) 15 NWLR (Pt.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
To uphold Roe , the court likely will require more than the usual arguments of stare decisis , the doctrine that the court should generally stand by its precedents. The Biden administration returned to ask for an injunction from the same justices a few weeks later and for a ruling on the statute.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. If it has not, the court must uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it is reasonable.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Both he and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who untimely passed early in the 2020-21 term — shared similar ideological perspectives, approaches to judicial review, and paths to the Supreme Court. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court at the end of this term will mark the end of an era. A close reading of Stenberg v.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 7, 2022
Six months after the arrival of Barrett in the fall of 2020, who had taken a relatively expansive view of the Second Amendment as a lower-court judge, the justices announced that they would review the New York law. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.
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