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New York sues New Jersey over compact governing Port of New York and New Jersey

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey.

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Patent Case Management Goes Cross-Institutional and Global

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Menell, Koret Professor of Law; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Faculty Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute; University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Prior to the mid-1990s, patent litigation took place in district court silos. They saw advantages to trying patent cases to juries.

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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In an article published in 2014, law professor Thomas Merrill suggested that the Chevron decision was not regarded as a particularly consequential one when it was issued. But in the decades since then, it became one of the most significant rulings on federal administrative law, cited by federal courts more than 18,000 times.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Jackson then snagged a highly sought-after spot as an associate at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, a Washington litigation boutique that later merged with Baker Botts, a Texas-based firm. Dale , the court agreed with the Scouts that New Jersey could not force the group to accept a gay man as a scoutmaster.

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