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Supreme Court Tells Federal Circuit to Defer to District Courts on Fee-Shifting Awards

By Barry Barnett on April 29, 2014

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How not to defer.

Last month, Blawgletter pointed out that the Supreme Court had granted review in a case that may curb the Federal Circuit. We noted:

A rule that has applied in patent cases since 1998 may go the way of Chevy Cobalt ignition switches.

"Deference, I Don't Have to Show

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Posted in Intellectual Property

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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