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Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.
“Rare Federal Circuit En Banc Patent Case Threatens Design Test; Court hasn’t decided design patent case en banc since 2008; LKQ takes on GM, ‘rigid’ test for axing obvious design patents”: Michael Shapiro of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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“New Method, Same Old Problems”: Eric Berger has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”
“Visa, Mastercard ask U.S. Supreme Court to fix ‘rampant confusion’ on class certification”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.
“Challenge to attorney bias rule heads to US Supreme Court”: David Thomas of Reuters has this report on a petition for writ of certiorari filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Charlie Adelson, serving life in Dan Markel murder, moved to Wakulla state prison”: Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

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“Elon Musk is suing to stop the government from enforcing labor laws. The Supreme Court might agree with him.” Columnist Michael Hiltzik has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.