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Supreme Court affirms death penalty, with a Batson dissent

At the Lectern

The court’s opinion is authored by Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. and California Supreme Court decisions holding it unconstitutional for an attorney to racially discriminate in peremptorily challenging prospective jurors. Justice Goodwin Liu dissents, claiming Batson / Wheeler error, named after U.S.

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Obviousness and Pharmaceutical Method of Treatment Claims

Patently O

Of relevance for the case, one of the dependent claims (19) includes a requirement of a particular particle size: dosing “consists essentially of … 156 mg/ml of the paliperidone palmitate having an average particle size (d50) of from about 1600 nm to about 900 nm.”