JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . On Wednesday, December 7, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case involving a fringe legal idea called the independent state legislature theory that poses a threat to the current system of election administration in the United States.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This means that issues decided at the district or administrative court level can be binding on all other courts: district courts, administrative courts, appellate courts, and even the Supreme Court. District court decisions are not binding precedent because they are at the bottom. Uniloc USA, Inc.

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Patently O

JUNE 29, 2021

Supreme Court 2021 ). In my property law course, I spend a good bit of time walking through post-conveyance rights and obligations. The court upheld the assignor doctrine, but with some big caveats. by Dennis Crouch. Minerva Surgical Inc. Hologic Inc. What warranties are are promised to the buyer? Majority: Justice Kagan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowed the doctrine of patent assignor estoppel, which prohibits an inventor from assigning a patent to someone and then later contending in litigation that the patent is invalid. By a vote of 5-4, the court rejected calls to completely abandon the doctrine. Hologic Inc. Hologic Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court granted review on a case raising the question whether Andy Warhol paintings made using a copyrighted photograph were so “transformative” as to be a non-infringing “fair use.” Case in point: Texas v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

24, 2020, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia , a case in which the petitioners and several amici are asking the Court to either (1) overrule Employment Division v. RFRA, as originally enacted, applied to any federal, state or local law found to “substantially burden” the practice of religion.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2021

In the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered at least three decisions on foreign choice of court agreements. [1] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2]

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Dennis noted that the Supreme Court had only recently in Taylor v. Cope now seeks Supreme Court review, supported by three amicus briefs. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The United States is easily the most successful petitioner before the Supreme Court, winning review in over 70% of the cases in which it files a cert petition. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Share It has been nearly 40 years since the Supreme Court indicated in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council that courts should defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the U.S. Applying Chevron , both the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2023

Share On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will consider whether federal trademark law applies to trademark infringement that takes place outside the United States. The question for the court is whether the law reaches infringing conduct outside the United States. In Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

20-1394 (Supreme Court 2021). This is a core civil procedure case pending before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has now issued a Call for the Views of the Solicitor General (CVSG)–seeking the government’s input on whether to hear the case. by Dennis Crouch. PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 7, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court’s sprint to the end of the term continues. The court granted last week ’s one new relist, Wilkins v. This week’s conference marks the second of the court’s last four scheduled conferences.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In Monday’s orders , the Supreme Court disposed of three relists. To begin with the unhappy news (at least for petitioners), the court denied review without comment in one-time relist Kelly v.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Written by Orji Agwu Uka, Senior Associate at Africa Law Practice (ALP)*. This is the fifth and final online symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria initially announced on this blog. Those pieces of advice and legal representations would have benefitted greatly from a comprehensive private international law treatise.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving the deference that courts should give to federal agencies’ interpretations of the laws that they administer. Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The arguments before the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. It is an assault on our very lives and freedom.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Share When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would vote to end the constitutional right to an abortion. If the court were to overturn Roe and Casey , access to abortion in America would shrink dramatically and immediately. Katie Barlow).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share Justice Stephen Breyer, a devoted pragmatist and the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire from the court at the end of the 2021-22 term, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. appeals court judge named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to fill White’s seat.

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