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Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States

9 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Justices Expand False Claims Act Liability—With Conditions

Health providers, medical and drug companies, educational institutions and others who contract with the federal government avoided a major defeat Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a contested theory of liability under the government's chief fraud-fighting law, but imposed limits on its use.
20 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Thomas Sweeps Precedents Aside in Indian Law Case

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is known to have his doubts about stare decisis, the doctrine of standing by precedents. The late Justice Antonin Scalia once said that Thomas "doesn't believe in stare decisis, period." Practitioners know that he is the justice most receptive to pleas to overturn undesirable precedents. Thomas's concurrence in an Indian law case June 13 may take the cake.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Sea-Doo Maker BRP Ordered to Pay $46.7M in Patent Infringement Case

A Miami federal judge entered a $46.7 million judgment in a patent infringement case against Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. over its Sea-Doo personal watercraft.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Merrick Garland to Students: 'You Have to Work for It'

In a rare public appearance, the Supreme Court nominee delivered a commencement address to fifth graders at J.O. Wilson Elementary School.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Sea-Doo Maker Bombardier Ordered to Pay $46.7M in Patent Infringement Case

A Miami federal judge entered a $46.7 million judgment in a patent infringement case against Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. over its Sea-Doo personal watercraft.
3 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Justices Decline to Revisit Power Plant Mercury Standards

Twenty states failed to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to examine an appellate court's decision to leave in place legally flawed mercury and air toxics regulations while the Environmental Protection Agency addressed the shortcomings.
4 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

A Law Prof's Take on Judicial Recusals, the Williams Decision and Trump

Recusal has emerged as an issue in the presidential campaign, in the form of Republican candidate Donald Trump's criticism of Judge Gonzalo Curiel for not stepping aside from the civil suit against Trump University. The high court itself has faced recusal controversies in recent years, prompting calls for justices to be more transparent in explaining why they do or don't recuse in certain cases. Stetson University College of Law professor Louis Virelli III has just written Disqualifying the High Court, a book about recusal that focuses mainly on the Supreme Court but also charts the history of recusal statutes—many of which he believes are unconstitutional. Our conversation with Virelli was edited for length and clarity.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Says Judges Must Recuse in Cases They Once Prosecuted

Judges who had a "significant, personal involvement" in a case during their previous role as a prosecutor must recuse when ruling on the case at a later stage, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

High Court Rejects Seminole Utility Tax Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing to hear an appeal by the Seminole Tribe of Florida challenging payment of state utility taxes.
3 minute read

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