by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! On to part two of this week’s reporting. After handing the plaintiffs’ securities class action bar a victory in Amgen just a few weeks back, the Court gave the class action defense bar a couple reasons to cheer with its decisions in...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! It’s time to get up to speed on some recent decisions. In this edition, we have US Airways v. McCutchen [11-1285], in which the Court held that equitable doctrines did not trump an ERISA plan’s terms, and Marshall v. Rodgers...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! This week, the Court shone the spotlight on the Sixth Amendment with a triple feature of cases involving the ineffective assistance of counsel. The first two have created a splash: In Missouri v. Frye (10-444) and Lafler v. Cooper (10-209), the...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! We’re back with Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (10-1150), a major patent decision addressing when inventions involving “laws of nature” can be patented; Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! The Justices apparently have no trouble multi-tasking, issuing 5 decisions and an order list this week, all while hearing the longest and most-watched arguments of the Term (and the possibly the decade) regarding the Patient Protection and...
