Sentences with phrase «important federal circuit court»

The RSS feed of a prominent legal blogger recently carried an item tagged «breaking news» describing an important federal circuit court opinion.

Not exact matches

Corbett in PA just lost an important First Amendment case in Federal Circuit Court.

«It is important for the U.S. Supreme Court to take this case, as the Ninth Circuit opinion ignores 20 years of precedents on special education law and represents yet another example of a federal agency exceeding its authority over educational decision making,» NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel said.

It is important to note that the decision in a federal court of appeals is not binding on the cases that are outside of its circuit — there are 13 different federal court of appeals circuits.

A little less than a decade ago, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals, whose rulings affect federal cases in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, issued an important ruling that can affect people with bipolar disorder in New Jersey.

The Supreme Court's decision in TC Heartland represents a sea of change in the analysis to determine proper venue in patent cases.3 Soon after TC Heartland, the Federal Circuit provided a roadmap to determine if venue is proper in a patent case post-TC Heartland.4 However, an important question remained — may accused infringers who failed to raise the defense of improper venue pre-TC Heartland now challenge venue post-TC Heartland.

But here there is a split among federal courts of appeals on an important constitutional question — the D.C. Circuit and the Fifth Circuit take the individual rights view (see here and here for why the Fifth Circuit's decision can't be dismissed as dictum), while I think nine other circuits take the collective rights view.

Until the recent Sixth Circuit decision, the most important invocation of Bush v. Gore by a federal appeals court probably came in a 2006 case decided by a different panel of the same court.

In terms of family law, it has been and will continue to be important that the approach by the Family Court of Western Australia, the Federal Circuit Court and the Family Court as the three main courts exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act work cohesively and harmoniously in these ongoing and long term objectives.