Patently O

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Stare decisis, Latin for “to stand by things decided,” is a legal principle that directs courts to adhere to previous judgments, i.e., precedent, when resolving a case with comparable facts. the Federal Circuit applied stare decisis to a prior validity ruling involving a different patent and a different accused infringer.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2021

In the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered at least three decisions on foreign choice of court agreements. [1] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2] 1] Kashamu v UBN Plc (2020) 15 NWLR (Pt.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. Andrus further argues that the Texas court’s decision conflicts with “vertical stare decisis,” the principle that lower courts must follow the Supreme Court’s decisions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. If it has not, the court must uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it is reasonable.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Both he and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who untimely passed early in the 2020-21 term — shared similar ideological perspectives, approaches to judicial review, and paths to the Supreme Court. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court at the end of this term will mark the end of an era. A close reading of Stenberg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Six months after the arrival of Barrett in the fall of 2020, who had taken a relatively expansive view of the Second Amendment as a lower-court judge, the justices announced that they would review the New York law. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Mississippi acknowledges that it must overcome the principle of “stare decisis” – the idea that courts should normally follow their prior precedent. But here, the state insists, the “stare decisis case for overruling Roe and Casey is overwhelming.” Stare decisis and the Kavanaugh test.

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