Rader's Resignation Cited in Ethics Dispute Before U.S. Supreme Court
Randall Rader's sudden resignation from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last June is playing a cameo role in a petition now before the U.S. Supreme Court on the duty of mediators to disclose conflicts of interest.
January 07, 2015 at 10:32 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Supreme Court Brief
Randall Rader's sudden resignation from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last June is playing a cameo role in a petition now before the U.S. Supreme Court on the duty of mediators to disclose conflicts of interest.
The petitioner in the case claims that a court-appointed mediator in a patent dispute failed to disclose “a close, enduring, and personal relationship” he had with a partner at the Fish & Richardson law firm, which represented one side in the mediation. That failure should have resulted in the reversal of a later judgment in the case, the petitioner claims.
Rader was on a panel of Federal Circuit judges that ruled in the case, CEATS, Inc. v. Continental Airlines, last June, just days before he resigned from the court after his own communications with a lawyer who argued before his court were called into question.
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