Thus, appellate courts may alter district court rulings on expert testimony only if clearly erroneous or if the wrong legal standard was applied. This decision effectively grants wide discretion to the trial ju
KSR v. Teleflex (Supreme Court 2006, Oral Arguments). The doctrine of nonobviousness is the cornerstone of American patent law. I was reminded today by Phil Swain that our nonobviousness statute, section 103(a) of the Patent Act, was drafted by Judge Giles Rich. Judge Rich is the ...
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He resigned the presidency in 2012 amid public protests against his order to arrest the senior judge and lost the 2013 election to Yameen. Also on Thursday, president-elect Solih's nominee was elected speaker with an overwhelming majority, in the first test of strength in the Maldives pa...
Judge Sir Geoffrey Vos ruled that while Harry’s safety concerns were both “powerful and moving,” Harry’s “sense of grievance” did not “translate into a legal argument.” In response, the former royal gave a reportedly surprise, lengthy interview to the BBC, in which he said he was...
Saturday, August 5, 2023 – A judge has ruled a temporary injunction, which exempts women with complicated pregnancies from the state abortion ban. The judge said there is a lack of clarity on the medical exemptions of the ban. Judge Jessica Mangrum of the Travis County District Court sided ...
In 2005, Justice Khanna was elevated to the position of additional judge at the Delhi High Court. He is one of the few judges of the Supreme Court who hasn’t served as Chief Justice of any High Court. Justice Sanjiv Khanna was also part of a five-judge bench that recently declared the...
The trial in cases of bribe and corruptionshould be completed by the special judgewithin two years. In case of delays, the reasons for the samemust be recorded and the total trial timemust not exceed four years. Police officers cannot begin a probewithout prior approval of the relevantauthorit...
Fathima Beevi, the first female Judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India, passed away at the age of 96 in Kerala’s Kollam. From 1950, when the Supreme Court of India came into existence, it took 39 years for Justice Fathima Beevi to be appointed the country's first fe ...
The mifepristone case began five months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Abortion opponents initially won a sweeping ruling nearly a year ago from U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump nominee in Texas, which would have revoked the drug’s approval entirely. The 5t...