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Federal Circuit Gives Stare Decisis Effect to a Judgment of Claim Validity

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2023 WL 2064163 (Fed. 17, 2023) In Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. 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. by Chris Holman C.R. Bard, Inc. Components, Inc. Bard, Inc.

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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The justices agreed to take up the fishing companies’ case in early May 2023, but with a caveat: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from the case, presumably because she heard oral argument in the case while she was still a judge on the D.C. Loper-Bright came to the Supreme Court in November 2022, asking justices to review the D.C.

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A quiet bench on the Quiet Title Act: Justices hold muted debate on statute of limitations

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It has stare decisis effect.” On the other hand, “if we’ve just kind of used the word without deciding the issue, then … that doesn’t have stare decisis effect and, to the contrary, we disclaim any understanding that the thing was meant to be jurisdictional in the pure sense.”.

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Religion and the Death Penalty’s Most Devout Supporters: “Father Forgive them, for They Know Not What They Are Doing”

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On January 21, 2023, he hanged himself on death row at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas. On February 1, 2023, the Death Penalty Information Center reported that Andrus’ attorney, Gretchen Sween , told the Los Angeles Times that the latest Supreme Court denial left her client a “broken” man “careening toward the abyss.”

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Back to the Bullpen: Minor League Teams Settle with MLB Over Latest Challenge to Baseball’s Historic Antitrust Exemption

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4] However, on November 2, 2023, it was announced that Major League Baseball had settled all three lawsuits with the minor league teams, avoiding the possible Supreme Court challenge, and sending the question of the validity of its long-held antitrust exemption back to the bullpen. [5] 29] Settlement On November 2, 2023, James W.

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Stephen Breyer, pragmatic liberal, will retire at end of term

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization , Breyer (along with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, both appointed by President Barack Obama) emphasized the importance of stare decisis, the idea that courts should not overrule their earlier cases except in narrow and extraordinary circumstances. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

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