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Supreme Court Review of Trademark Infringement and Corporate Separateness under the Lanham Act

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the 4th Circuit’s damages ruling in Dewberry Engineers v. Dewberry Group, which offers a unique examination of corporate separateness and the protection of trademarks under...more

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Democrat AGs to SCOTUS: Don’t Ghost the ATF’s Rule on Ghost Guns

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A coalition of 20 Democratic AGs has filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the federal government’s request for review of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Garland v...more

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Amici Argue for Narrow Interpretation of National Bank Act Preemption

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A group of non-profit consumer advocacy organizations, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, and the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators filed two separate briefs asking the U.S. Supreme Court to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Will Supreme Court Consider Whether to Allow an Alternative to In-App Purchasing on the App Store?

App developers who pay 30% commission fee to Apple via In-App Purchasing should take note of an important legal decision recently presented to the Supreme Court for possible review. The Supreme Court’s decision whether to...more

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Supreme Court Grants Cert for Interest-on-Escrow Preemption Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari to hear the Second Circuit case of Cantero et al. v. Bank of America, N.A., involving National Bank Act (NBA) preemption of New York’s law requiring that interest be paid to...more

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Supreme Court to Decide: No Realization Means No Moore Income Tax?

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Many of you, perhaps most, may have read about a case that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court during its current term. The case, Moore v. United States, comes out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court...more

White and Williams LLP

Third-Party Releases Headed to SCOTUS on Rocket Docket Following Rare Civil Stay of Purdue Pharma Plan Confirmation

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The Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case is going to Washington. In a rare civil stay ruling from the highest court in the land, the United States Supreme Court stayed the recent decision of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals,...more

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Supreme Court Set to Review Burden of Proving Retaliatory Intent in SOX Whistleblower Suits: Employee or Employer?

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On May 1, 2023, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC.1 There, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that an employee whistleblower suing under the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Amicus Briefing in Amgen v. Sanofi: The Rest of the Story

The Supreme Court's consideration of the standards for satisfying the enablement provisions of 35 U.S.C. 112(a) has been occasioned for the first time in over a century by the Court's granting certiorari in Amgen v. Sanofi. ...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The Supreme Court Majority Prepares to Bury Chevron; Is There Anyone Left to Praise It?

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court accepted cert. in Lopez Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which presents a straightforward challenge to the continuing viability of Chevron...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

U.S. Government Files Amicus Brief in Amgen v. Sanofi

The Supreme Court's decision to grant certiorari in Amgen v. Sanofi is the first time in almost a hundred years that the Court has deigned to consider sufficiency of disclosure decisions, in this case enablement under 35...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

GlaxoSmithKline Files Amicus Brief in Amgen v. Sanofi

The Supreme Court's decision to grant certiorari in Amgen v. Sanofi is the first time in almost a hundred years that the Court has deigned to consider sufficiency of disclosure decisions, in this case enablement under 35...more

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Supreme Court Grants Certiorari to Determine Whether the Bankruptcy Code Waives Sovereign Immunity of Native American Tribes

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On January 13, 2023, the Supreme Court granted the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians’ Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to resolve the split of circuits on whether Section 106 of the Bankruptcy Code...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

States file brief in support of Biden’s student loan debt-relief program

On January 11, a coalition of 22 state attorneys general from Massachusetts, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District Of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New...more

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Supreme Court Grants Review in Race-Conscious Admissions Cases

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On January 24, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in two closely-watched cases raising the issue of the constitutionality of the use of race in college admissions. The Court has consolidated the cases brought by Students...more

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A Property Right To Exclude Others: Cedar Point Nursery’s Implications For Regulatory Enforcement

The Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (No. 20-107), a case that has generated considerable amicus participation and press coverage. In that case, union organizers, relying on a...more

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TCPA: U.S. Government Advocates for Strict Reading of the Statute, ATDS Should Include Random or Sequential Generation Requirement

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The Acting Solicitor General submitted an amicus brief in Facebook v. Duguid on September 4, urging the Supreme Court to find that telephony must randomly or sequentially generate telephone numbers, then dial those numbers in...more

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Currents - Energy Industry Insights - December 2019 #2

Court Ruling Vindicates ExxonMobil in New York ‘Climate Change’ Fraud Case - “'The Office of the Attorney General failed to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that ExxonMobil made any material misstatements or...more

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Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of the CFPB

The Supreme Court has granted certiorari to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). While the CFPB won in the Ninth Circuit, the agency has since changed its mind and now...more

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U.S. Supreme Court to decide CFPB’s constitutionality

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This past Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it has agreed to decide whether the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause structure is constitutional.  The Court granted Seila Law’s petition for a writ of...more

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DOJ to Dismiss False Claims Act Lawsuit After Supreme Court Review

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An amicus brief in an FCA suit indicates that the government is serious about applying the Granston Memo and invoking its statutory authority to dismiss cases. Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations and Health...more

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CFPB files SCOTUS amicus brief; argues FDCPA does not apply to non-judicial foreclosure proceedings

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The CFPB has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the respondent/law firm defendant in Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus LLP, et al....more

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Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC -- Positions Taken in Selected Amicus Curiae Briefs

On November 27, 2017, the Supreme Court considered the question of whether the inter partes review process established by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in implementing portions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act or...more

Holland & Knight LLP

The United States Supports Certiorari in the Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation

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On November 14, 2017, following a rare invitation from the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, newly confirmed Solicitor General Noel Francisco submitted an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the United States in Animal...more

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Abbvie Files Amicus Brief in Amgen V. Sandoz Supreme Court Case

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On February 17, 2016, we reported that Amgen and Sandoz had both petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review of the Federal Circuit’s decision in Amgen v. Sandoz, each seeking to advance their respective positions on whether...more

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