by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 3, 2024
Greetings, Court Fans! Last fall, if you asked commentators what OT23 was going to be about, chances are they would have said “the administrative state.” But things took a bit of a turn when circumstances in the lower courts conspired to fill out the Court’s docket...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 2, 2024
Greetings, Court Fans! In Murthy v. Missouri (No. 23-411) and Moyle v. United States (No. 23-726), Justice Barrett cemented her new role as the leader of a Coalition of the Unwilling (to adjudicate on the merits), joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan (and sometimes...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 1, 2024
Greetings, Court Fans! This morning, the Court issued the final three decisions of OT23: In Trump v. United States (No. 23-939), a 6-3 Court held that a former President enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and...
by Kelly Sweeney | Jul 1, 2024
In a recent precedential en banc opinion, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) overruled the existing framework for analyzing obviousness in design patents. See, LKQ Corporation, Keystone Automotive Industries, Inc. v. GM Global Technology Operations...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jun 28, 2024
Greetings, Court Fans! Today, on what we now know is the penultimate day of the term, the Court issued three opinions, all of which are both big and split 6-3 on (mostly) ideological lines: In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (No. 22-451), decided along with...
