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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. the Federal Circuit applied stare decisis to a prior validity ruling involving a different patent and a different accused infringer.

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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. ” The court’s second example concerned a change in the law. Formica Insulation Co. ,

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Ross , involving a dormant commerce clause challenge to a California law prohibiting the sale of pork unless the pigs from which it was made (virtually all of which come from outside the state) were raised consistent with the state’s restrictive standards. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. New Relist.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2022

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. In addition, the Supreme Court held a few years back that the appointment procedures for SEC administrative law judges violate the Constitution’s appointments clause.

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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. Next up is Kelly v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

Cogdill is the latest in a long line of petitions urging the Supreme Court to revisit its jurisprudence under the “qualified immunity” doctrine, which grants law enforcement officials immunity from civil suits for violating constitutional rights if those rights were not “clearly established” at the time they acted. relisted after the Jan.

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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.

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