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Ballard Spahr LLP

Federal Appeals Court rules that Trump illegally fired FTC board member, orders her reinstatement

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A divided federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump illegally fired Democratic FTC member Rebecca Slaughter and has ordered that she be reinstated to her position....more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

D.C. Circuit Allows FTC Commissioner Slaughter to Be Reinstated, but the Supreme Court May Soon Decide Otherwise

Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit issued the latest decision in the saga over President Trump’s firing of the Democratic Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioners. That decision sets the stage for a likely emergency application...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Online lender asks Supreme Court to review ALJ ruling

A Delaware-based online payday lender and its founder and CEO (collectively, “petitioners”) recently submitted a petition for a writ of certiorari challenging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit’s affirmation of a...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Commissioner of Patents Had Authority to Review IPRs While Moonlighting as USPTO Director

On May 27, in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., the Federal Circuit agreed that the Commissioner for Patents, performing the duties of the Director of the USPTO, had the authority to decide a request for rehearing of a...more

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