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Arthrex on Remand: Commissioner of Patents Drew Hirshfeld and the Problem of Shadow Acting Officials

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Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Hirshfeld has the legal power to fulfill the expanded job as required by the Supreme Court’s decision. 1) The litigation background. — Dennis Crouch.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. He once hosted a former student from Florida at his lakeside vacation house in Michigan, where he claimed on his Facebook page that they “solved a murder.” One jumped up and down, shouting, “He’s guilty. He did it!!”.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

Paul Clement, the conservative Supreme Court advocate who frequently sparred with Ginsburg during oral arguments, called her “ a path-marking litigator for equality for women and a keen legal tactician.”. Ruth Ginsburg was one of the members of the Court who achieved greatness before she became a great justice,” he wrote.

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