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Supreme Court affirms death penalty, with a Batson dissent

At the Lectern

The court’s opinion is authored by Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. and California Supreme Court decisions holding it unconstitutional for an attorney to racially discriminate in peremptorily challenging prospective jurors. Justice Goodwin Liu dissents, claiming Batson / Wheeler error, named after U.S.

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Obviousness and Pharmaceutical Method of Treatment Claims

Patently O

Of relevance for the case, one of the dependent claims (19) includes a requirement of a particular particle size: dosing “consists essentially of … 156 mg/ml of the paliperidone palmitate having an average particle size (d50) of from about 1600 nm to about 900 nm.”

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Comparing Recent Federal Circuit Judges

Above The Law

Decision The Ninth Circuit reversed the district courts decision to dismiss the Unruh Act claim, ruling that the federal court should have kept jurisdiction over it. The court noted that the claim was already largely resolved by the ADA ruling, and sending it to state court would be inefficient and unnecessary.