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SCOTUS dispatch: Supreme Court appears likely to side with straight women in ‘reverse discrimination’ case

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Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. On Wednesday morning, I walked up to an unusually quiet Supreme Court building to attend oral arguments for Ames v. and the admission of new attorneys to the Supreme Court bar.

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California Supreme Court: prisoners must get lawyer when challenging convictions for killings committed by others

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The California Supreme Court held Monday that prisoners are entitled to a lawyer before a trial court can consider their record of conviction in determining whether the prisoners may challenge their murder convictions for killings committed by others. The new law in question was California Senate Bill No.

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Making a Proper Determination of Obviousness

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Still, the guidelines spend some time on the requirements of a prima facie case; the necessity of both evidence and reasoning to support any obviousness rejection; and consideration of all evidence before the examiner. The updated guidance underscores that the factual inquiries set forth by the Supreme Court in Graham v.

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Supreme Court on Patent Law: November 2023

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by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court is set to consider several significant patent law petitions addressing a range of issues from the application of obviousness standards, challenges to PTAB procedures, interpretation of joinder time limits IPR, to the proper scope patent eligibility doctrine. More detail on each case below: MacNeil v.

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Supreme Court takes two cases — including one on its own motion — at yesterday’s conference — Part II

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Racial Justice Act dissenting vote Justice Goodwin Liu wanted to issue an order to show cause in In re Manjikian , but he was the only member of the court who did. The Attorney General’s informal response is here and the petitioner’s reply is here. 5th 834, the Supreme Court found unavailing an equal protection attack.

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Supreme Court will decide easement, sentencing cases

At the Lectern

At the Supreme Court’s conference yesterday, a double one, actions of note included: Implied easements. The court agreed to hear Romero v. Shih , at least to decide this limited issue: “Did the trial court correctly find the existence of an implied easement under the facts?” The court also granted review in People v.

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Jury Instructions and Objective Indicia of Nonobviousness: Federal Circuit Grants New Trial in Inline Plastics v. Lacerta

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In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit vacated a judgment of invalidity and remanded for a new trial, holding that the district court’s jury instruction on objective indicia of nonobviousness constituted prejudicial legal error. The case, Inline Plastics Corp. The district court construed several key claim terms.