“It is the district court’s job to consider and rule on pending motions, even ones that seem straightforward.” He requested the full appeals court to re-hear the case. If the court agrees, the 11 fulltime judges in the D.C. circuit would listen to arguments, instead of just three...
Federal judges are supposed to step aside in cases where their “impartiality might reasonably be questioned." Other bases for recusal include a personal bias against one of the parties. Trump’s lawyers say Chutkan's comments in cases against Jan. 6 rioters show...
President Joe Biden sits after speaking during a meeting with his Competition Council in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) NEW YORK (AP) — A Texas federal judge on Thursday accused the ...
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1:15-cv-20853, S.D. Fla., Judges Cooke, Torres Gateway, Inc. v. Companion Products After a full trial, obtained a decision that Gateway’s cow-spots trademark is strong and famous, and that the defendant’s black-and-white spotted plush novelty computer monitor wraps infringed Gateway’s...
Obtained affirmance of $61 million verdict finding that Corning willfully infringed PPC’s patents related to coaxial cable connector technology; Federal Circuit also denied Corning’s motions to rehear the appeal and stay the issuance of the mandate. 17-1347, Fed. Cir., Judges Prost, Mayer,...
Before K.K. HALL, WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges. OPINION PER CURIAM: DC Comics, Inc. and Warner Bros., Inc., appeal from the district court's order awarding attorneys' fees in the amount of $1,500. Our review of the record and the district court's opinion discloses that this...
21 allowscurrent practice to continue.The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit'sSenior Circuit Judge David Tatel and circuit judges Neomi Rao andJ. Michelle Childs issued a 25-page ruling Nov. 17 that dismissedthe petition of a group known as Transmission Owner Petitioners...
that successfullyprosecuted FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Friedfor fraud and Lawrence Ray, who was convicted of sex trafficking of students at Sarah Lawrence college. Before she joined the office in 2016, Sassoon clerked for two federal judges including Justice Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court...
In their book The Behavior of Federal Judges, Professors Lee Epstein and William Landes and Judge Richard Posner offer many insights into the workings of the federal judiciary. Two of their findings, however, strike me as curious: (1) A high rate of dissent in the U.S. Court of Appeals ...