At Federal Circuitry blog, we like to check in once in a while on what the Federal Circuit is doing in its orders that don’t get posted on the public website. Those orders often offer nuggets about practice at the Federal Circuit and sometimes …›
I was counsel of record on an amicus brief in California v. Texas for four law professors arguing that even if the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, it can be severed from the rest of the statute. This post states my own …›
As readers know, we have written about Arthrex a lot. So what better way to start Monday than another short post? Today, the Supreme Court granted cert. in Carr v. Saul, No. 19-1442, and Davis v. Saul, No. 20-105—two cases involving the Social Security …›
At Federal Circuitry, we frequently update our statistics. We now have almost a year’s worth of data since we started our project of collecting every Federal Circuit decision and collating all of the Court’s substantive orders. In a post in July, I took a …›
Over the past several months, we’ve looked at what Federal Circuit cases the Supreme Court has and hasn’t reviewed, and how often the Supreme Court agrees with each Federal Circuit judge. Today, we got another data point with our first grant of a Federal …›
It’s court week at the Federal Circuit, so we decided to take a brief look at what cases had their arguments cancelled in October, and how that compares to previous months. To find out, watch our two-minute video above and take a peek at …›
How well do Federal Circuit decisions hold up at the Supreme Court? And which Federal Circuit judges have their votes most often affirmed? With the new Supreme Court term around the corner, we dove into a decade’s worth of data to find out. The …›
Last week Federal Circuitry discussed injunctions and stays pending appeal (or mandamus), and, at the end of the week, an interesting mandamus order addressing a challenge to venue in the Eastern District of Texas was released. In the mandamus petition, the petitioner also sought …›
At Federal Circuitry, sometimes we have simple ideas that prove not so simple. What we expect will be a few hours of data collection, number crunching, and analysis actually turns into far more work. This post is one of those instances. A few weeks …›
Next week is Court week. Readers may remember that, after the Court released the September calendar, we predicted that the submission trend would continue. Were we right? Sort of. Cases were submitted (including one of our cases, as appellee). But …›