Court Rules Government Stare Decisis Statute 
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.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. ,
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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. 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.
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.
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.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 7, 2022
Bruen was the court’s first major ruling on gun rights in over a decade. The court had ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects the right to have a firearm in the home, and in 2010 it had affirmed that both states and the federal government must respect that right. In Kennedy v. And in West Virginia v.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Wednesday’s argument in Dobbs , which involves a Mississippi ban on almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, comes 30 days after the court heard arguments in another consequential abortion controversy: a pair of challenges to a six-week abortion ban that took effect in Texas on Sept. Stare decisis and the Kavanaugh test.
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