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. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

The lower courts blocked Minerva from asserting invalidity because Minerva’s founder had filed the original patent applications and then sold the patent rights, which eventually ended up with Hologic. The lower courts ruled that the founder’s original assignment of patent rights prevented, or “estopped,” Minerva from contesting validity.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Similar constitutional challenges have been brought against a range of California laws governing subjects from foie gras to low-carbon fuel , but despite a relist or two along the way, the court has taken none of them. On remand, the Texas court ruled that the inadequate counsel had not prejudiced Andrus. New Relist.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Instead, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld “general jurisdiction” over Cooper on the ground that Cooper, by registering as a foreign corporation in Georgia, had consented to suit in Georgia as a condition of doing business in the state. The government has filed a confession of error, agreeing the offense does not qualify.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But, Gorsuch continued, “the whole project deserves a tombstone no one could miss,” and he urged his colleagues to “acknowledge forthrightly that Chevron did not undo, and could not have undone, the judicial duty to provide an independent judgment of the law’s meaning in the cases that come before the Nation’s courts.”. Khorrami v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2022

Although the Supreme Court’s decisions in Roe and Casey established such a right, Alito continued, those decisions should nonetheless be overruled despite the principle of stare decisis – the idea that courts should not overturn their prior precedent unless there is a compelling reason to do so.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2023

In 1977, the Supreme Court ruled in Trans World Airlines v. Groff assures the court that it can overturn Hardison without worrying about stare decisis – the idea that courts should not overrule their prior cases unless there is a compelling reason to do so – because the Supreme Court in Hardison was not interpreting Title VII at all.

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