Today the Federal Circuit released three nonprecedential opinions and one nonprecedential order. One of the opinions comes in a case appealed from the Court of Federal Claims, which dismissed various claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and granted judgment on the record with respect to other claims. The second and third opinions come in related patent infringement cases. The nonprecedential order is a dismissal. Here are the introductions to the opinions and a link to the dismissal.
Opinions & Orders – October 9, 2024
This morning the Federal Circuit released three nonprecedential opinions. The first two come in veterans cases. The third comes in federal employment case appealed from the Merit Systems Protection Board. Here are the introductions to the opinions.
Opinions & Orders – September 19, 2024
This morning the Federal Circuit released one nonprecedential opinion and six nonprecedential orders. The nonprecedential opinion affirms a final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which denied a request for corrective action under the Whistleblower Protection Act. The nonprecedential orders are all dismissals. Here is the introduction to the opinion and links to the dismissals.
Opinions & Orders – July 5, 2024
This morning the Federal Circuit released four nonprecedential orders. The first two are denials of petitions, and the other two are dismissals. Here are the introductions to the denials of petitions and links to the dismissals.
Opinions & Orders – June 25, 2024
This morning the Federal Circuit released two precedential opinions and ten nonprecedential orders. The first opinion reverses and remands a government contract case appealed from the Court of Federal Claims. The second opinion reverses a judgment of the District of Delaware in a patent case. As for the orders, one remands a case back to the Merit Systems Protection Board, four are denials of petitions, and five are dismissals. Here are the introductions to the opinions, the introduction to the first order, and links to the remaining orders.
Opinions & Orders – June 11, 2024
This morning the Federal Circuit released two nonprecedential opinions and seven nonprecedential orders. The first opinion affirms a judgment of the Merit Systems Protection Board, and the second opinion affirms in part, reverses in part, and remands a patent and trade secret case appealed from the District of Rhode Island. Three of the orders are dismissals and four are Rule 36 summary affirmances. Here are the introductions to the opinions and links to the dismissals and summary affirmances.
Opinions & Orders – May 30, 2024
This morning the Federal Circuit released one precedential opinion and one nonprecedential opinion. The precedential opinion affirms in part and reverses and remands in part for further proceedings a dismissal by the Court of Federal Claims of five claims raising statutory, contract, and constitutional issues. The nonprecedential opinion affirms a judgment of the Merit Systems Protection Board. Here are the introductions to the opinions.
Opinions & Orders – May 17, 2024
This morning the Federal Circuit released two nonprecedential opinions and five nonprecedential orders. The first opinion affirms a final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which denied review and dismissed an appeal for lack of jurisdiction. The second opinion vacates and remands a judgment of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals in a government contract case. The orders are all dismissals. Here are the introductions to the opinions and links to the orders.
Opinions & Orders – April 26, 2024
This morning, the Federal Circuit released a nonprecedential opinion in a case appealed from the Merit Systems Protection Board. Here is the opinion’s introduction.
Recent Supreme Court Activity
Here is an update on recent activity at the Supreme Court in cases decided by the Federal Circuit. With respect to granted cases, the Supreme Court issued its opinion last week in Rudisill v. McDonough, a veterans case. With respect to petitions, two new petitions were filed in a patent case and a pro se case, and the Court denied a petition in another pro se case. Here are the details.