The U.S. Supreme Court issued an extraordinary order on Monday telling a Washington practitioner to show cause why he should not be sanctioned for “his conduct as a member of the bar of this court” in connection with a pending petition in a patent case.

Howard Shipley, a Foley & Lardner intellectual property partner, was the target of the order, and his petition was in the case Sigram Schindler Beteiligungsgesellschaft MBH v. Lee, which was also denied review on Monday. Under the order, Shipley has 40 days to show why he should not be sanctioned.

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