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Appeals Court Restores Offshore Oil, Gas Lease Sale Without Rice's Whale Protections

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Nov. 14, 2023, dismissed claims brought by environmental groups challenging offshore oil and gas Lease Sale 261. The court ordered that the sale take place within 37 days of...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2022 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Thaler v. Vidal, Appeal No. 2021-2347 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 5, 2022) - In its only precedential patent decision this week, the Federal Circuit answered a question that had long occupied the musings...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions: Mylan Labs. Ltd v. Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V.,...

Mylan appealed from a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) discretionary denial of institution of an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding. The Board declined to institute Mylan’s IPR under NHK-Fintiv, a multi-factor analysis...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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Supreme Court Developments

Even as President Biden has appointed a commission to study potential institutional reforms of the U.S. Supreme Court, his administration’s most immediate impact at the Court came through a flurry of filings early this year...more

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California State Court Upholds Exclusive Federal Forum-Selection Charter Provision for 1933 Act Suits

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California State Court Upholds Exclusive Federal Forum-Selection Charter Provision for 1933 Act Suits; California District Court Dismisses Fraud-Related Claims Against AT&T; Third Circuit Holds Challenge to SEC’s Decision to...more

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Constitutional Issues Arising From PTAB Decisions Must Be Appealed to the Federal Circuit

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SECURITY PEOPLE, INC. v. IANCU - Before Lourie, Wallach, and Hughes.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California - Summary: Congress foreclosed the possibility of...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2020 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Security People, Inc. v. Iancu, Appeal No. 2019-2118 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 20, 2020) - This week’s Case of the Week deals with whether a party can challenge the outcome of an inter partes review...more

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COVID-19 and Unprecedented: Litigation Insights - Issue 20, August 2020

This 20th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, finds both plaintiffs and defendants with reasons to celebrate. Insurance carriers avoided consolidation of coverage disputes in...more

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Shore Damage/State of Louisiana Damage Claim: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Whether U.S. Corps of Engineers Has Sovereign...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (“Court”) addressed in a January 21st opinion issues associated with a federal district court action in which the State of Louisiana alleged shore damage caused by waterways maintained by...more

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Federal Courts Turn Away Challenges to FDA's e-Cig Regulations

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On Monday, December 16, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi granted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by trade organization United States Vaping...more

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Religious Institutions Update: December 2019 - Lex Est Sanctio Sancta

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Key Cases - School States Claim Against State Superintendent for Unconstitutional Discrimination In Bethel Ministries, Inc. v. Salmon, No. SAG-19-01853, 2019 WL 6034988 (D. Md. Nov. 14, 2019), the court denied Maryland...more

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Healthcare Law Update: October 2019

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In recent years, the healthcare industry has been turning greater attention to the need to engage or involve patients in developing new technologies and systems to improve healthcare delivery. These patient engagement...more

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Supreme Court Decides Smith v. Berryhill

On May 28, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Smith v. Berryhill, holding a dismissal by the Social Security Administration’s Appeals Council on timeliness grounds after a claimant has had an administrative law judge...more

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Judge Carr Dismisses Lake Erie litigation

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Judge Carr issued an order on October 3, 2018, in Environmental Law and Policy Center, et al., v. U.S. EPA, et al., effectively dismissing the litigation and providing no clear path forward for challenges of Ohio EPA’s plan...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Updates - September 2018

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Hyatt v. Pato (No. 2017-1722, 9/24/18) (Reyna, Wallach, Hughes) - Hughes, J. Reversing dismissal for lack of subject matter description stating, “the exclusive jurisdiction of this court and the Eastern Virginia district...more

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Hyatt v. Pato

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Federal Circuit Summary - Before Reyna, Wallach, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Summary: District Courts have jurisdiction to hear APA challenges to the PTO’s denial...more

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Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp., Appeal Nos. 2016-2099, -2100, -2101, -2332, -2333, -2334 (Fed. Cir. May 7, 2018) - In an appeal from an inter partes review, the Federal Circuit...more

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Schwabe Defends Tribal Sovereignty

The trial team of Brien Flanagan, Aukjen Ingraham and Sarah Lawson successfully stood up to outside parties attempting to interfere in the Navajo Nation’s economic activity. Federal Judge Steven Logan granted the Navajo...more

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Fresh From the Bench: Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit

In EmeraChem v Volkswagen the Circuit reverses a determination of obviousness because the ?Board did not provide the patentee with an adequate opportunity to address a prior art reference ?that formed a principal basis for...more

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District Court Dismisses USPTO December 2015 Holidays Case

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On December 2, 2016, Judge O’Grady of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted the USPTO’s motion to dismiss the complaint brought by Elm 3DS Innovations, LLC over the “holidays” declared December...more

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The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - November 2016

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This month we review a recent Second Circuit decision addressing ERISA plan status as a class member in a securities shareholder class action. As discussed in the article, the decision exposes a potential conflict among the...more

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IRS Data Breach Class Action Dismissed

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Last week, the Internal Revenue Service successfully defeated a putative class action related to a data breach it suffered in 2015. The D.C. District Court’s decision dismissing the suit demonstrates the high bar required to...more

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District Court Dismisses Challenge to Biological Opinions In Light of Circuit Court’s Exclusive Jurisdiction

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Primarily relying on precedent from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth and D.C. Circuits, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine recently dismissed an Endangered Species Act (ESA) lawsuit challenging two...more

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DC Circuit: No Jurisdiction For Suits Re SEC Forum Selection Choice

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Suits challenging the SEC’s forum selection decisions continue to proliferate. As the trend has unfolded the Commission posted a memo on its website discussing the issue of forum selection and has proposed modifications to...more

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