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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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Supreme Court Vacates and Remands IRS Tax Whistleblower Case Following Reversal of Chevron

The end of the Chevron deference is already impacting whistleblower award cases. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently reversed and remanded an appeals court decision in an IRS whistleblower case where a...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Get with the Pronoun: Eleventh Circuit Rules Pervasive Misgendering Is Harassment

If an employer or coworker persistently uses a transgender worker’s wrong name or identified pronoun, can that constitute a hostile work environment in violation of Title VII? In Copeland v. Georgia Department of Corrections,...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: Supreme Court Clarifies that Pure Omissions Under Item 303 of Reg. S-K Are Not Actionable Under Rule 10b–5(b)

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On April 12, 2024, in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P., the US Supreme Court held that a company’s mere failure to disclose information required by management’s discussion and analysis (Item 303 of SEC...more

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Second Circuit Reins in SEC Disgorgement Powers

In Securities & Exchange Commission v. Govil, No. 22-1658, 2023 WL 7137291 (2d Cir. Oct. 31, 2023), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dealt a setback to the enforcement agenda of the Securities and...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - September 2023 #2

Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. v. Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2021-2299, -2338 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 15, 2023) - In a decade-old case that has raised a number of issues relating to design patents...more

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MarkIt to Market® - June 2023

Thank you for reading the June 2023 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we begin a three-part series that closely examines ways to lose trademark rights; share an article that examines the...more

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Supreme Court Vacates and Remands 10th Circuit's Decision in "Abitron"

The US Supreme Court ruled today in the closely watched Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. case, which considered whether a party could recover in US courts for trademark infringement that occurred outside...more

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Supreme Court Vacates and Remands Medicaid Disputes to 4th, 7th Circuits

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On June 20, 2023, the Supreme Court vacated and remanded two circuit court decisions finding private rights of action for violations of rights purportedly created by federal Medicaid law for further consideration in light of...more

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Taking Cue from the Supreme Court’s Van Buren Decision, Ninth Circuit Releases New Opinion Holding Scraping of Publicly Available...

On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit earlier this week again affirmed the lower court’s order preliminarily enjoining LinkedIn Corp. (“LinkedIn”) from blocking data analytics company hiQ Labs, Inc.’s...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions: Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., 141 S....

The inventor of a patent assigned to Hologic subsequently founded Minerva Surgical. Hologic then filed a continuation with broader claims. Based on that broader patent, Hologic brought an infringement case against Minerva,...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions

[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Last year, the continued global COVID-19 pandemic forced American courts to largely continue the procedures set in place in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was no...more

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Hughes et al v. Northwestern University et al – Supreme Court Urges Courts to Undertake a Context-Specific Scrutiny of...

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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Seventh Circuit’s decision in Hughes v. Northwestern University, an important ERISA case. Although the Court’s decision vacated a Seventh Circuit victory for plan sponsor...more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights - July 2021

[co-author: Jay Bober, Summer Associate] The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for...more

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The Supreme Court - June 28, 2021

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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following two per curiam decisions: Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco, No. 20-1212: Petitioners are partial owners of a multiunit residential building in...more

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The Supreme Court - June 23, 2021

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Collins v. Yellen, No. 19-422: The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (“Recovery Act”), 12 U.S.C. §4501 et seq., was passed in response to concerns that Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s financial condition as a result of...more

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The Supreme Court - February 3, 2021

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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following three decisions: Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, No. 19-351: In this Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) case, the respondents - heirs of...more

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US Supreme Court Remands Blaszczak Insider Trading Case Back to the Second Circuit

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently cast doubt on the criminal convictions of the one-time “King of Political Intelligence” David Blaszczak and three others for their role in an insider trading scheme. The Court’s action could...more

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EPA Narrowly Defines Discharges into Groundwater that Are Subject to Clean Water Act Permitting

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Draft guidance from the US Environmental Protection Agency provides a clearer look at how the agency intends to apply the US Supreme Court's "functional equivalent" analysis to determine when National Pollutant Discharge...more

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US EPA issues draft guidance regarding NPDES permitting requirements following Maui Supreme Court decision

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On December 8, 2020, U.S. EPA announced issuance of draft guidance to clarify its view of how the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund decision should be applied to its Clean Water Act National...more

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Orders of Interest Roundup, Arthrex Style

At Federal Circuitry blog, we like to check in once in a while on what the Federal Circuit is doing in its orders that don’t get posted on the public website. Those orders often offer nuggets about practice at the Federal...more

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Last Week in the Federal Circuit (September 7-11): Another Arthrex Follow-on

Maybe it was the end of summer and the start of fall, or the kids (kind of) going back to school. But whatever it was, last week the Court issued only one precedential decision, in a veteran’s benefits case. All said, the...more

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Supreme Court Unanimously Rules That Willfulness Is Not Required to Recover Profits

The U.S. Supreme Court resolved a circuit split on April 23, 2020, by unanimously holding in Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., et al. that a brand owner is not required to prove that a trademark infringer acted...more

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US Supreme Court Decisions in Presidential Subpoena Cases: Implications for Private Parties

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The Court’s recent rulings on state grand jury and congressional subpoenas identify important limitations on the purpose and scope of these investigative tools. Key Points: ..In July 2020, the Court held that the...more

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Supreme Court Affirms Congressional Subpoena Power but Remands for Further Review

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In yesterday’s decision in Trump v. Mazars, USA, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that Congress has the power to conduct investigations in support of its power to consider and enact legislation. However, it relied on historical...more

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The Supreme Court - July 9, 2020

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued the following decisions: Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP, No. 19-715; Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG, No. 19-760: In April 2019, three United States House of Representatives’ committees...more

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