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Patent Puzzles after the Supreme Court’s 2024 Administrative Law Cases: Stare Decisis, Rulemaking, and Discretion

Patently O

Although these decisions may not have as significant an impact in patent law as in other areas, they do pose interesting puzzles with respect to stare decisis as well as agency rulemaking and discretion that will provide many litigation opportunities going forward. establishing and governing inter partes review.”

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

SCOTUSBlog

This week they’re replaced by three new relists, all involving government petitions in one way or another. The question is whether the United States is such a successful litigant that the court will grant review even in cases it doesn’t want the court to review. Federal prisoners raise that issue in pending petitions in Ham v.

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

SCOTUSBlog

In an article published in 2014, law professor Thomas Merrill suggested that the Chevron decision was not regarded as a particularly consequential one when it was issued. But in the decades since then, it became one of the most significant rulings on federal administrative law, cited by federal courts more than 18,000 times.