Appeals, Judicial Review, Administrative Authority

PTO Defends its Recent Policy Changes Regarding Discretionary Denials

Proskauer - The Patent Playbook on 7/25/2025

In the past few months, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Acting Director has made substantial changes to the process for, and factors considered in, exercising discretion to deny institution of an inter partes...more

Eleventh Circuit Deals Fatal Blow to the TCPA’s One-to-One Consent Rule

Goodwin on 1/28/2025

Late in the afternoon on January 24, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “One-to-One Consent Rule,” which was scheduled to take effect on January 27, 2025, was struck down and vacated by the US Court of...more

U.S. Supreme Court: No Judicial Review of Revoked Visa Petitions

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 12/12/2024

The U.S. Supreme Court held in Bouarfa v. Mayorkas, No. 23-583 (Dec. 10, 2024), that one cannot appeal a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revocation of an approved visa petition in federal court because such...more

Wisconsin Court of Appeals Enforces Parties’ Stipulation to Remedies and Waiver of Judicial Review in Administrative Proceeding

Foley & Lardner LLP on 11/16/2016

While many of us spent this past Halloween gorging on a variety of candies and sweets, Wisconsin’s court of appeals was busy rendering an opinion that likely left Travis Technology High School (“Travis Tech”) with a decidedly...more

California Court of Appeal Rules in Favor of Public Entity Employer: No Forum Shopping for California Public Entity Employees

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/18/2015

In a recent unpublished case, the California Court of Appeal ruled a public civil service commission decision on a worker’s employment claims precluded him from relitigating his claims in a civil action. According to the...more

Perhaps a Corps Jurisdictional Interpretation is Final Agency Action After All

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 4/14/2015

After Sackett, the question on everyone’s mind was “How far does it go?” The first test of that question was the decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals – not known as a bastion of liberalism – in Belle Company v. Corps...more