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23-1141 took place in March 2025 before the US Supreme Court. As previously indicated, this is a much-politicized case brought by Mexico against US gun manufacturers. The proceedings This case before the US Supreme Court is about overcoming a motion to dismiss. The hearing before the US Supreme Court took place on 4 March 2025.
Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.
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Kronstadt), the Court granted the Defendant’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s indirect patent infringement claims for failure to sufficiently allege Defendant “made” the accused product. Plaintiff had argued that using the patented methods in the design process, which guides the subsequent manufacturing process, is sufficient to state a claim.
Kirschenbaum — In a recent decision, the Second Circuit upheld the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)’s position that Pfizer’s proposed copay assistance program for its high-cost heart treatment would violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Pfizer, Inc.
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The centerpiece of Cuomo’s plan is a new law to allow victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers under a nuisance theory. Indeed, its main component — a law allowing citizens to sue gun manufacturers — will be as productive as trying to win the New York Marathon by running furiously in place. Andrew Cuomo.
Deepsouth litigated its case to the Supreme Court, and the Court eventually allowed the company to escape some portion of its adjudged liability based upon the territorial limits of U.S. ” However on certiorari, the Supreme Court felt itself bound by the statute and precedent. patent law. We know that U.S.
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2015) in finding that manufacture and delivery of a product in a foreign country can infringe a US patent if sufficient sales-activity occurred within the US. The Federal Circuit rejected this appeal — holding that the presumption is applied when courts interpret the law or construe a statute. Broadcom Ltd.
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brings the justices yet another case under a statute with which they are all too familiar – the Federal Arbitration Act. As regular readers will know, the court in the last few decades has heard numerous cases under the FAA. LePage Bakeries Park St.
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VIP Products firmly rejected the use of the Jack Daniel’s trademarks by a manufacturer selling a line of dog toys that mock various beverage manufacturers. All members of the court joined Kagan’s opinion finding that toy a condemnable infringement of the Jack Daniel’s marks. 2 On Your Tennessee Carpet” replaces “Old No.
Share This Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Minerva Surgical Inc. Federal courts have applied this doctrine since 1880, and the Supreme Court implicitly approved of the doctrine in 1924 in Westinghouse Electric. Manufacturing Co. The court could maintain the doctrine but limit its scope.
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. But the courts have taken the general provision and given it substantial meaning beyond the text.
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by Dennis Crouch Law school civil procedure courses spend very little time on proper venue because, in most cases venue is proper so long as the district court has personal jurisdiction over the defendant. ” This provision ensures the venue statutes do not limit the ability to sue foreign defendants U.S. See 28 U.S.C.
Coughlin , the Supreme Court held that Native American tribes are not immune from the automatic stay of the Bankruptcy Code. The lower courts rejected that idea, and on Thursday Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s opinion for an 8-1 majority affirmed those rulings. Tribes are indisputably governments.
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Gaulkin — We previously blogged about Pfizer’s copay assistance lawsuit, which sought to challenge HHS’s interpretation of the Federal health care program anti-kickback statute (AKS) and position that the company’s proposed copay assistance program would violate the AKS. Background. Greber, 760 F.2d 2d 68, 71 (3d Cir.), denied, 474 U.S.
For example, a trade secret can be a manufacturing process, recipe, distribution method for products, research and development information, software algorithm, list of ingredients, list of suppliers, list of customers, pricing strategy, business plan, or advertising strategy. . § then it is no longer a trade secret. See 35 U.S.C. §
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The courts have issued several new and significant rulings on environmental and administrative law the past few weeks. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT. Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, Inc. by Anthony B. See 81 FR 73478.)
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The 2017 Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland gave renewed teeth to the venue statute governing litigation. This argument was quickly rejected by the court. (2) Celgene Corp. Mylan Pharma ( Fed. If a non-human person, this requires being incorporated within the state (or the like).
district court of Massachusetts by former employee and whistleblower Michael Bawduniak in April 2012 as a qui tam action. The Alert described several factors that could potentially violate the antikickback statute. Wasserstein — On September 26, 2022, Biogen Inc. This lawsuit was brought to the U.S. See United States ex rel.
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