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Fishermen Ask SCOTUS to Scrap Chevron

IP Watchdog

A group of herring fishermen have filed their opening brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that asks the Court to overturn its “Chevron doctrine,” which says courts should defer to administrative agencies’ interpretation of the statutes delegated to them. In the 1984 ruling in Chevron, U.S.A.,

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OpenSky/VLSI Parties Battle it Out in Briefs to Vidal

IP Watchdog

VLSI Technology LLC, IPR2021-01229, filed their opening briefs. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Review of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) institution decisions in OpenSky Industries, LLC v. VLSI Technology LLC, IPR2021-01064 and Patent Quality Assurance, LLC v.

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Independent Inventor Renews Sotera Stipulation Abuse Allegations at CAFC

IP Watchdog

Last week, independent inventor Carrie Hafeman filed an opening brief for the appellant at the U.S. The brief includes Hafeman’s most recent challenge to alleged abuses of Sotera stipulations by Big Tech firms working in concert to invalidate Hafeman’s claims.

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NVIDIA

Securities Docket

Additionally, a couple of years ago, I published Fact or Fiction: Flawed Approaches to Evaluating Market Behavior in Securities Litigation, which identified still more rules of thumb that judges have developed over time. Which is what I was thinking about when going over NVIDIA’s opening brief in NVIDIA Corporation v.

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Writing Tips From the Bench: Knowing When Less Is More

WA Bar News

By the time I get into the meat of the argument, my view is that I should have heard what the litigants points are in the table of contents, and in the summary of the argument, and in the topic headings. Is the table of contents the very first thing that you read when you look at a brief?

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Drawing Connections: A Guide to Visual Advocacy for Lawyers

WA Bar News

That’s the word limit for opening briefs in Washington appellate courts. 2 Per brief. In litigation documents, visuals can focus attention in depositions or simplify data in briefs. BY JACLYN C. CELEBREZZE Twelve thousand. How can you cut through word count and make your writing memorable?

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Special Counsel Jack Smith's Paper Chase Against Trump Continues

Practice of Law

After the Supreme Court handed down a ruling on presidential immunity , Smith filed his opening brief to support the stance that the evidence his team wanted to use in their case against Trump did not violate the new rules. A trial date has still not been set, and this is not even the end of the immunity pre-trial litigation yet.