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Staredecisis, Latin for “to stand by things decided,” is a legal principle that directs courts to adhere to previous judgments, i.e., precedent, when resolving a case with comparable facts. the Federal Circuit applied staredecisis to a prior validity ruling involving a different patent and a different accused infringer.
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Natural Resources Defense Council that courts should defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. The question in this challenge to the rule, he said should focus on what the best reading of the statute is. Litigants,” she said, “will come out of the woodwork.”
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Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. If it has not, the court must uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it is reasonable.
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