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Case
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Question(s) Presented
Date
June 23, 1999
Case
Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank
Subject
Patent and Plant Variety Protection Remedy Clarification Act
Question(s) Presented
“Did Congress have power under § 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to abrogate the states’ Eleventh Amendment immunity and make them amenable to suit in federal court for claims of...
Date
June 10, 1999
Case
Dickinson v. Zurko
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) sets forth standards governing judicial review of findings of fact made by federal administrative agencies. 5 U.S.C. § 706. We must decide whether § 706...
Date
April 21, 1999
Case
United States v. Haggar Apparel Co.
Subject
Trade
Question(s) Presented
“This case concerns regulations relating to the customs classification of certain imported goods. The regulations were issued by the United States Customs Service with approval of the Secretary of the...
Date
November 10, 1998
Case
Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“Section 102(b) of the Patent Act of 1952 provides that no person is entitled to patent an ‘invention’ that has been ‘on sale’ more than one year before filing a...
Date
March 31, 1998
Case
United States v. U.S. Shoe Corp.
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT), 26 U.S.C. § 4461(a), as applied to goods loaded at United States ports for export, is an impermissible tax on exports or, instead, a...
Date
January 21, 1998
Case
LaChance v. Erickson
Subject
MSPB
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether either the Due Process Clause or the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), 5 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq., precludes a federal agency from sanctioning an employee for...
Date
March 3, 1997
Case
Warner-Jenkinson Co. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“Nearly 50 years ago, this Court in Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co., 339 U.S. 605 (1950), set out the modern contours of what is known...
Date
July 1, 1996
Case
United States v. Winstar Corp.
Subject
Gov. Contract
Question(s) Presented
“The issue in this case is the enforceability of contracts between the Government and participants in a regulated industry, to accord them particular regulatory treatment in exchange for their assumption...
Date
June 10, 1996
Case
United States v. International Business Machines Corp.
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether the Export Clause of the Constitution permits the imposition of a generally applicable, nondiscriminatory federal tax on goods in export transit.”
Date
April 23, 1996
Case
Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“The question here is whether the interpretation of a so-called patent claim, the portion of the patent document that defines the scope of the patentee’s rights, is a matter of...
Date
March 4, 1996
Case
Hercules, Inc. v. United States
Subject
Tucker Act
Question(s) Presented
“Petitioners in this case incurred substantial costs defending, and then settling, third-party tort claims arising out of their performance of Government contracts. In this action under the Tucker Act, they...
Date
April 18, 1995
Case
Shalala v. Whitecotton
Subject
Vaccine
Question(s) Presented
“The question in this case is whether a claimant who shows that she experienced symptoms of an injury after receiving a vaccination makes out a prima facie case for compensation...
Date
January 18, 1995
Case
Asgrow Seed Co. v. Winterboer
Subject
Plant Variety Protection Act
Question(s) Presented
“The Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970, 7 U.S.C. § 2321 et seq., protects owners of novel seed varieties against unauthorized sales of their seed for replanting purposes. An exemption,...
Date
December 12, 1994
Case
Brown v. Gardner
Subject
Veterans
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether a regulation of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 38 CFR § 3.358(c)(3) (1993), requiring a claimant for certain veterans’ benefits to prove that disability resulted from negligent treatment by...
Date
May 24, 1993
Case
Keene Corp. v. United States
Subject
Jurisdiction
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1500 treats a claim in a non-Claims Court suit as ‘for or in respect to’ a claim in the Claims Court when Congress has precluded...
Date
May 17, 1993
Case
Cardinal Chemical Co. v. Morton International, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether the affirmance by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of a finding that a patent has not been infringed is a sufficient reason for vacating a declaratory...
Date
January 25, 1993
Case
United States v. Hill
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“Under §§ 56 and 57(a)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, 26 U.S.C. §§ 56, 57(a)(8) (1976 ed.), a taxpayer must pay a ‘minimum tax’ on the excess of...
Date
June 8, 1992
Case
United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co.
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“Section 5821 of the National Firearms Act (NFA or Act) levies a tax of $200 per unit upon anyone ‘making’ a ‘firearm’ as that term is defined in the Act....
Date
June 18, 1990
Case
Eli Lilly and Co. v. Medtronic, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1) renders activities that would otherwise constitute patent infringement noninfringing if they are undertaken for the purpose of developing and submitting to the Food and Drug...
Date
June 11, 1990
Case
Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond
Subject
MSPB
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether erroneous oral and written advice given by a Government employee to a benefits claimant may give rise to estoppel against the Government and so entitle the claimant to a...