Here are the Commercial Appeals Roundups for the weeks of April 20-24, 2020 and April 27-May 1, 2020. The Roundups describe a key aspect of precedential appellate rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, the 13 U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the highest appeals courts in Delaware, New York, and Texas and provide links directly to
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Commercial Roundup: Appeals
Here’s the Commercial Roundup: Appeals for the week of April 13-17, 2020. As you’ll see, it went heavy on intellectual property and procedure, the latter including rulings on arbitration awards and class (de)certification.
Have a great week. We’ll see you again next Monday.
Be well.
- Voluntary dismissal without prejudice didn’t trigger right to fees for
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Commercial Roundup: Appeals for Week of 3-30-20
The Contingency is slow off the mark this Monday, but it’s not because federal and state appellate courts reduced their output due to COVID-19 last week. That may change as social distancing measures postpone live hearings, but so far so good.
Be well.
- Article III standing test required more than risk of misdiagnosis or mistreatment
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Commercial Roundup: Appeals for Week of 3-23-20
COVID-19 didn’t slow the appellate courts last week, as you can see from the 16 entries below.
Be well.
- Race must “motivate” decision not to make contract under 42 U.S.C. 1981. https://supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-
- Fifth Circuit will rehear case on constitutionality of CFSB en banc. http://ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-60302-CV1.pdf… and http://ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-60302-CV0.pdf
- You can’t
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Commercial Roundup: Appeals for Week of 3-16-20
COVID-19 isn’t stopping The Contingency or @contingencyblog, but we are following authoritative directives and best practices and hope you and your families are and remain healthy and safe too.
Barry Barnett
- Light bulb maker could grant distributor a copyright sublicense to use licensor’s photos of light bulbs without saying so and as matter of
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A Message to Clients and Co-Counsel on Covid-19
In this time of concern and disruption over Covid-19, I and my colleagues at Susman Godfrey (SG) are busy taking steps to safeguard our firm family while continuing to be proactive in protecting the interests of our clients and moving matters forward as necessary and appropriate. I hope that you, your colleagues, and your families…
Commercial Appeals Roundup: Weeks of 3-9-20 and 3-2-20
- Magistrate judge can’t rule on whether to appoint receiver. http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/18-1405P-01A.pdf
- Inventors‘ hiding their offer to sell oil recovery method from USPTO invalidated patents. http://cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/16-2231.Opinion.3-2-2020_1543098.pdf
- Patent infringement that doesn’t happen until after importation supports exclusion order. http://cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/18-1450.Opinion.3-2-2020_1543049.pdf
- Facebook users had standing to sue over misuse of URL data in their
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Commercial Roundup: Week of 2-24-20 Appeals
- Buyers of auto parts didn’t agree to arbitrate antitrust claims against suppliers by taking on Limited Warranty servicing duties. https://opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/20a0053p-06.pdf
- Comcast must answer monopolization claims in case over local cable ads markets. http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2020/D02-24/C:18-2852:J:Hamilton:aut:T:fnOp:N:2477274:S:0
- Rampant use of Western Union’s money-transfer system to commit fraud didn’t give rise to strong inference that execs
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Commercial Appeals Update: Week of 2-10-20
- Expert’s claim of “stigma” to land value from gas pipeline didn’t pass Rule 702 muster. https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/183126p.pdf
- Letter that implied lessee paid royalties to wrong entity didn’t meet notice requirement of Louisiana statute. http://ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/19/19-30396-CV0.pdf
- Presence of servers in district didn’t count as regular place of business under patent venue statute. http://cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/
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Commercial Case Roundup: Appeals (Week of 1-27-20)
- Phone system that makes calls “using a random or sequential number generator” doesn’t offend Telephone Consumers Protection Act. http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201814499.pdf
- “The place of jurisdiction is Vienna” permits but does not mandate litigation in Austria’s capital. https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=301050
- Complaint that buyer of company shorted seller on payout by hiding flip opportunity stated fraud claim.
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