Federal Circuit
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Courts
Special Committee Commits To Sweeping Judge Pauline Newman's Lawsuit Under The Rug
Who needs constitutional protocol when you can just ignore whatever comes your way? -
Courts
The Federal Circuit Court Of Appeals Wants To Force Judge Newman To The Supreme Court To Get Her Job Back
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Courts
Against The Doctor's Orders: Judge Pauline Newman Suspended For A Year By Her Coworkers
This is gonna make small talk around the Keurig a little more awkward.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.17.23
* Supreme Court will delve into whether lawmakers can probe Trump’s hotel deal with the government. We’ll see how Harlan Crow weighs in on this. [Politico]
* It’s becoming a mantra but, “Disney’s lawyers are smarter than Ron DeSantis’s lawyers.” [New York Times]
* Legislators press Navy to move faster on Camp Lejeune claims… so we know they’ve been watching late-night TV too. [Bloomberg Law News]
* On the one hand, sleeping with your client while repping her in a divorce is an ethical violation, it did create a new ground for divorce so… getting closer to the finish line! [Law.com]
* Chief legal officers are getting more compensation in the form of bonuses… which just so happens to consistently favor male attorneys because it’s all a game of discriminatory whack-a-mole. [Corporate Counsel]
* Federal Circuit tussle over Judge Pauline Newman’s competency continues, with a special committee asking the judge to respond to a request that she undergo psych evaluations. Imagine if the courts dealt with, I don’t know, taking hundreds of thousands in donor gifts and under-the-table compensation with the same alacrity. [Law360]
* Holograms testifying at trial? It’s like living in the future but just with the frivolous parts. [Reuters]
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Biglaw, Courts
Biglaw Partner Will Become Federal Circuit's First Black Judge
Congratulations on this wonderful achievement! -
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Courts, Intellectual Property
Success At The (Usually) Highest Patent Court In The Land
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.12.20
* A strip club owner has sued New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over closures related to COVID-19. Cuomo should pay any settlement in dollar bills. [New York Post]
* The Georgia Attorney General has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the Ahmaud Arbery case. [CNN]
* The Federal Circuit wouldn’t give a lawyer a mulligan and affirmed a lower tribunal’s ruling that the attorney did not have the right to a golf patent. [Reuters]
* Almost 2,000 former employees of the Department of Justice have called on Attorney General Barr to resign. [Washington Post]
* A college that is accused of being a “sham” has recieved millions of dollars of relief related to COVID-19. Sounds like a bad sequel to the movie Accepted. [NPR]
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Courts
Escorted From Courtroom By Security Caps Off A Rough Week For Attorney
Making fun of the judge is... not a great strategy. -
Intellectual Property
Oracle v. Google: Will SCOTUS Take Up Case With Significant Software Implications?
Does copyright cover application programming interfaces? This will have significant impacts on computers, software, and technology. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 12.16.18
* In case you missed it (the news broke on Friday night), Judge Reed O’Connor (N.D. Tex.) held that the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare is unconstitutional, in the wake of last year’s tax reform that reduced the ACA’s “shared responsibility payment” for lacking health-care coverage to zero. [MedCity News]
* Josh Blackman agrees with Judge O’Connor the constitutionality of the individual mandate, but disagreed with his severability analysis. [Reason / Volokh Conspiracy]
* Meanwhile, fellow Volokh Conspirator Samuel Bray is glad that the court didn’t issue a national injunction. [Reason / Volokh Conspiracy]
* Adam Feldman takes a closer look at the Federal Circuit’s relationship to the Supreme Court — including which members of the Federal Circuit are most frequently vindicated by SCOTUS. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Carrie Severino shares the disappointment of her former boss, Justice Thomas, in Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh voting against certiorari in Gee v. Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast. [Bench Memos / National Review]
* Eric Turkewitz calls out members of the media for misreporting on a routine trip-and-fall case because they don’t like the plaintiff’s famous father. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]
* Oakland is going on the offensive against the NFL, firing off a 49-page complaint signed by James Quinn of Berg & Androphy, among others. [The MMQB / Sports Illustrated]
* Speaking of Berg & Androphy, name partner David Berg offers expert insights on what it takes to win as a trial lawyer. [YouTube]
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Benchslaps
Mailing Marijuana To The Federal Circuit Still Frowned Upon For Some Reason
I was gonna file a motion, but then I got high...
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Intellectual Property
Policing The PTAB
Both patent owners and challengers benefit in the long run from a Federal Circuit actively engaged in policing the PTAB. -
Intellectual Property
IPR Loophole... Closed For Now
As far as IPRs are concerned, it doesn’t matter who owns a patent, whether the owner be an Indian tribe or a group of kindergarten students. -
Intellectual Property
3 Observations From The Federal Circuit Judicial Conference
The Federal Circuit will continue in its efforts to bring uniformity to patent law, and will not shy away from challenges presented by the America Invents Act. -
Intellectual Property
Oracle v. Google Is More Evidence That The Federal Circuit Has No Business Deciding Copyright Cases
It seems inevitable that copyright holders could try to add on patent claims simply to ensure Federal Circuit review. -
Courts
The Latest And Greatest In President Trump's Judicial Nominations (Part 1)
Here's a rundown of where things stand, including district as well as circuit courts. -
Federal Judges, Politics
Circuit Court Nominees In The Trump Administration: The Latest News And Rumor (Part 1)
What are the chances of these folks getting confirmed? -
Health Care / Medicine, Intellectual Property
The Fight To Claim A Cure
When the underlying technology is so potentially valuable, companies will go to war on multiple fronts.