Stare Decisis: Dress Codes, Union T-Shirts and the NLRB
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Slovenian-born Luka Doncic became a professional basketball player at the young age of sixteen years old and the towering height of 6’7”. He quickly made a name for himself, leading his Spanish team Real Madrid to the...more
In this special episode, Akin Gump Supreme Court and appellate practice head Pratik Shah and senior counsel Aileen McGrath discuss the momentous 2021 Supreme Court Term and look at notable upcoming cases in the October 2022...more
The bête-noir of conservative jurisprudence is the “administrative state,” fueled by judicial doctrines affording various degrees of deference to administrative regulations, interpretive guidelines, and pronouncements. Last...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a somewhat rare interlocutory appeal, the Fifth Circuit reviewed and reaffirmed a 40-year old case holding that emotional distress and punitive damages are not available under the ADEA. This decision...more
Fifty years ago, in Brulotte v. Thys Co., the U.S. Supreme Court held that the collection of royalties after a patent’s expiration constitutes per se patent misuse. Brulotte has been widely criticized as economically...more