Government Litigating Stare Decisis Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Those who spoke extensively, however, seem ready to reject the government’s argument that the statute of limitations at issue here is a strict jurisdictional rule, as opposed to a “mere” claims-processing rule, which could be waived in an appropriate case. It has stare decisis effect.”
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 11, 2022
This week they’re replaced by three new relists, all involving government petitions in one way or another. The question is whether the United States is such a successful litigant that the court will grant review even in cases it doesn’t want the court to review. Federal Trade Commission. Breckon and Jones v.
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SCOTUSBlog
JULY 1, 2021
Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowed the doctrine of patent assignor estoppel, which prohibits an inventor from assigning a patent to someone and then later contending in litigation that the patent is invalid. On this front, the court largely embraced the middle ground the government advanced in a friend-of-the-court brief.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2022
Similar constitutional challenges have been brought against a range of California laws governing subjects from foie gras to low-carbon fuel , but despite a relist or two along the way, the court has taken none of them. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. That’s all for this week. Until next time, stay safe !
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Returning Relists.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 17, 2024
Natural Resources Defense Council that courts should defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. The court’s ruling could have ripple effects across the federal government, where agencies frequently use highly trained experts to interpret and implement federal laws.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
GOVERNING LAW: The Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA without regard to the principle of conflicts of any jurisdiction.”. Its argument, inter alia , was that by virtue of Article 12 and 13 of their agreement, the Nigerian court had no jurisdiction in this case.
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