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Constitutional Challenges Supreme Court of the United States Retroactive Application

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The Supreme Court Update - April 7, 2025

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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in two cases: Ellingburg v. United States, No. 23-3129: This case addresses the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which the government...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Barr Ruling Cures Claims Arising During Life of Government-Debt Exception, Holds Texas District Court

Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas concluded that plaintiffs can bring claims for violations of 47 U.S.C. § 227(b) that arose while the government-debt exception (“GDE”) to that provision...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Arthrex Files Certiorari Petition in Arthrex case

Arthrex recently filed a certiorari petition with the Supreme Court in Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew Inc. (a case related to Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., which has also the subject of petitions from the U.S. government...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Supreme Court Takes Pass on Considering IPR Constitutionality

There is little rhyme nor reason in the cases the Supreme Court decides to review. But the Court has patterns in its case selection that do (to some degree) probe what the Justices think are important questions. One pattern...more

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Give and Take: IPR of Pre-AIA Patent is NOT an Unconstitutional Taking

On July 30, 2019, the Federal Circuit held that retroactive application of IPR (inter partes review) proceedings to pre-AIA (America Invents Act) patents is not an unconstitutional taking under the Fifth Amendment (Celgene...more

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Supreme Court Decides Gundy v. United States

On June 20, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Gundy v. United States, No. 17-6086, holding that Congress’s delegation of authority to the Attorney General to specify offenders to whom the registration...more

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